Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 43

Then when the sun had set, the King asked his huntsman to show him the hut; and as they came to it he knocked at the door and said, "Let me in, dear Sister."

Who acts: King, huntsman, huntsmen · What happens: set, ask, show, come, knock, say · To what, where: sun, huntsman, hut, King · 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 (King, huntsman, huntsmen), 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	6 set	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 set	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 set	aux
6	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 asked	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 huntsman	nmod:poss
12	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 show	mark
14	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 show	iobj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hut	det
17	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 show	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 knocked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 knocked	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 came	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 knocked	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knocked	nsubj
26	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	parataxis
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 door	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 door	det
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 knocked	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 knocked	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Let	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 Let	punct
34	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 said	ccomp
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 Let	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	34 Let	compound:prt
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Sister	punct
38	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Sister	amod
39	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Let	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 Let	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past · perfect · passive		the sun			then		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	ask speech: ask	past	the King	King's huntsman					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent huntsman=Recipient clause=Topic
3	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	King's huntsman not said here	the hut	King				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient hut=Topic
4	come	past	huntsmen = huntsman			sun			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location
5	knock	past	King					at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
6	say speech: assert	past	King not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	let in in a quote	infinitive		King				dear Sister obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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