Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 40

They knocked at the door, and when the woman opened it and saw that it was Hansel and Gretel, she said: ‘You naughty children, why have you slept so long in the forest?--we thought you were never coming back at all!’

Who acts: Hansel, woman, door, You, we · What happens: knock, open, see, be, say, child · To what, where: door, Hansel, forest, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hansel, woman, door, 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	_	14 saw	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 opened	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 opened	nsubj
11	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 opened	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 Hansel	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 Hansel	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Hansel	cop
18	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Gretel	cc
20	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Hansel	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 children	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 children	punct
26	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 children	nsubj
27	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 children	amod
28	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 said	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 slept	punct
30	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	33 slept	advmod
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 slept	aux
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 slept	nsubj
33	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 children	parataxis
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 long	advmod
35	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 slept	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 forest	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 forest	det
38	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 slept	obl
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 slept	punct
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 thought	punct
41	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 thought	nsubj
42	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 coming	nsubj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 coming	aux
45	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	46 coming	advmod
46	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 thought	ccomp
47	back	back	ADV	_	46 coming	advmod
48	at	at	ADP	_	49 all	case
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 coming	obl
50	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 knocked	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	knock	past	Hansel			at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	open	past	the woman	door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	see	past					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	door	Hansel and Gretel			tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	child		You				tree rules
7	sleep	present · perfect	you		the forest	long property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location
8	think speech: other	past	we				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	not come back	past · progressive	you		all		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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