Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 34

They knocked at the door, and when the wife opened it, and saw Hansel and Grethel, she exclaimed, "You wicked children! why did you sleep so long in the wood?

Who acts: pebbles, wife, stepmother, You · What happens: knock, open, see, exclaim, child, sleep · To what, where: door, Hansel, wood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pebbles, wife, stepmother, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 opened	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wife	det
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 opened	nsubj
11	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saw	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 opened	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
16	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Grethel	cc
18	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Hansel	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 exclaimed	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 exclaimed	nsubj
21	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 children	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 children	punct
24	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 children	nsubj
25	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 children	amod
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 exclaimed	obj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 children	punct
28	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	31 sleep	advmod
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sleep	aux
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 sleep	nsubj
31	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 exclaimed	advcl
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 long	advmod
33	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 sleep	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 wood	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wood	det
36	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sleep	obl
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	knock	past	pebbles = pebble			at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	open	past	the wife	door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	see	past	pebbles = pebble not said here	Hansel and Grethel			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hansel=Stimulus
4	exclaim speech: express	past	stepmother				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	child in a quote		You				tree rules
6	sleep in a quote	past · do-support	you		the wood	long property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location

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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