Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 64

Then a sweet voice called out in the room, "Tip-tap, tip-tap, who raps at my door?" and the children answered, "the wind, the wind, the child of heaven"; and they went on eating without interruption.

Who acts: tip tap, children · What happens: call out, rap, answer, go, eat · To what, where: sweet voice, room, wind · 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 (tip tap, children), 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 called	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 voice	det
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 voice	amod
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	nsubj:pass
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 called	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tap	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 tap	punct
12	Tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tap	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Tip	punct
14	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 room	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tap	punct
16	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tap	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 tip	punct
18	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 room	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 raps	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 raps	nsubj
21	raps	rap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tap	acl:relcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 door	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 door	nmod:poss
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 raps	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 raps	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 raps	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 answered	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 children	det
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 answered	nsubj
30	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 called	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wind	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 wind	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wind	det
34	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 answered	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 wind	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wind	det
37	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wind	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 child	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 child	det
40	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wind	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 heaven	case
42	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 child	nmod
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 child	punct
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 went	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 went	cc
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 went	nsubj
47	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 answered	conj
48	on	on	SCONJ	_	49 eating	mark
49	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 went	advcl
50	without	without	ADP	_	51 interruption	case
51	interruption	interruption	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 eating	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call out speech: ask	participle · passive		a sweet voice	the room and Tip tap and tip tap	then		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	rap in a quote	present	tip tap				at my door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
3	answer speech: assert	past	the children	the wind and the wind and the child of heaven				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wind=Eventuality
4	go	past	children = child					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	eat	gerund	children = child not said here				without interruption	vn eat-39.1-1 «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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