Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 52

She ran to the door of her own house, but it was shut; then she knocked at the window and cried: ‘Hans, is Elsie within?’

Who acts: Clever, length · What happens: run, be, knock, cry · To what, where: Hans, Elsie

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clever, length), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 house	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 house	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 house	amod
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 door	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shut	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 shut	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 shut	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shut	cop
14	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ran	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 knocked	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 knocked	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knocked	nsubj
18	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	parataxis
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 window	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 window	det
21	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knocked	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cried	cc
23	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 knocked	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 Hans	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 Hans	punct
26	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 cried	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Elsie	punct
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 Elsie	cop
29	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 cried	obl
30	within	within	ADP	_	23 cried	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	Clever			to the door of Clever's own house result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result
2	is	past	length			shut property	tree rules
3	knock	past	Clever		then	at the window	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at window=Patient
4	cry speech: express	past	Clever not said here	Hans			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present		Elsie			tree rules

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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