Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 93

All at once the door opened, and in stepped a little Man, who said, "Good evening, fair maiden; why do you weep so sore?" "

Who acts: All, little Man, you · What happens: open, step, say, weep · To what, where: little Man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, little Man, you), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 opened	nsubj
2	at	at	SCONJ	_	6 opened	mark
3	once	once	SCONJ	_	6 opened	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 opened	nsubj
6	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stepped	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stepped	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 stepped	case
10	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 opened	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Man	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Man	amod
13	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stepped	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Man	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 evening	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 evening	punct
19	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 evening	amod
20	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 maiden	punct
22	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 maiden	amod
23	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 evening	appos
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 weep	punct
25	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	28 weep	advmod
26	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 weep	aux
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 weep	nsubj
28	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 opened	parataxis
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 sore	advmod
30	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 weep	xcomp
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 weep	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 weep	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	open	past	All			tree rules
2	step	past	All not said here	a little Man		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location man=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	a little Man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	weep in a quote	present · do-support	you		sore property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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