Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 21
With the rod knock thrice at the iron door of the castle, and it will spring open.
Who acts: you, castle · What happens: knock, spring · To what, where: thrice, iron door
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, castle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 rod | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rod | det |
| 3 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knock | obl |
| 4 | knock | knock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | thrice | thrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knock | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 8 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 door | amod |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knock | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 castle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 door | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spring | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spring | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spring | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 spring | aux |
| 17 | spring | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 knock | conj |
| 18 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 spring | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | imperative | you not said here | thrice | the iron door of the castle | with the rod | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent thrice=Theme at door=Destination | ||
| 2 | spring | future | castle | open property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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