Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 29
Presently the guest came, and knocked politely and courteously at the house-door.
Who acts: guest · What happens: come, knock
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guest), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 guest | det |
| 3 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knocked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 knocked | cc |
| 7 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 7 knocked | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 courteously | cc |
| 10 | courteously | courteously | ADV | _ | 8 politely | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 door | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 house | punct |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knocked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the guest | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | knock | past | the guest not said here | at the house door; politely property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=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: «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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