Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 20

One evening, as they were all sitting cosily together like this, there was a knock at the door, as if someone wished to come in.

Who acts: girls, knock, someone · What happens: sit, be, wish, come in · To what, where: One evening

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, knock, someone), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 was	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sitting	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 sitting	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sitting	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sitting	aux
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 sitting	advmod
8	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 evening	acl
9	cosily	cosily	ADV	_	10 together	advmod
10	together	together	ADV	_	8 sitting	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 this	case
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 sitting	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 evening	punct
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 knock	det
17	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 was	nsubj
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 door	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 knock	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wished	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 wished	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 wished	mark
24	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 wished	nsubj
25	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 was	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 come	mark
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wished	xcomp
28	in	in	ADV	_	27 come	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	girls = girl	One evening not said here			like this; all, together property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location evening=Theme
2	be	past	a knock at the door		there	evening		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wish a condition, not said to happen	past	someone					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	come in not said to happen	to-infinitive	someone not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «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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