Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 104

Then she knocked at the door, and cried, ‘Fine wares to sell!’

Who acts: queen · What happens: knock, cry, sell · To what, where: Fine wares

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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	3 knocked	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knocked	nsubj
3	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knocked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cried	cc
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knocked	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wares	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 wares	punct
12	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wares	amod
13	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cried	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sell	mark
15	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wares	acl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 wares	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past	queen		then	at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	queen not said here	Fine wares			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ware=Topic
3	sell	to-infinitive	queen not said here	Fine wares not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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: «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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