Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 35

Then one of them slipped after him to the little hut, and heard him say, "Sister, dear, open the door," and saw that the door was opened and immediately shut behind him.

Who acts: one, King · What happens: slip, hear, say, open, see, shut · To what, where: King, Sister, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, King), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 slipped	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 slipped	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 one	nmod
5	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slipped	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 hut	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hut	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hut	amod
11	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slipped	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 heard	cc
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slipped	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heard	obj
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 heard	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Sister	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Sister	punct
19	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 say	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dear	punct
21	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Sister	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 open	punct
23	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 say	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 door	det
25	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 open	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 open	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 open	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 saw	cc
29	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 opened	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 door	det
32	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 opened	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 opened	aux:pass
34	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 saw	ccomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 shut	cc
36	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	37 shut	advmod
37	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 opened	conj
38	behind	behind	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 shut	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	one of huntsmen		after King; then	to the little hut	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	hear	past		King			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	King not said here	Sister			tree rules
4	open in a quote	infinitive		the door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
5	see	past					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	open	past · passive		the door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
7	shut	participle				behind King; immediately property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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