Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 12

Then he came back, knocked at the door of the house, and called: ‘Open the door, dear children, your mother is here and has brought something back with her for each of you.’

Who acts: wolf, mother · What happens: come back, knock, call, open, be, bring back · To what, where: door, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf, mother), 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 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knocked	punct
6	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocked	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 door	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 called	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 called	cc
15	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 Open	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 Open	punct
18	Open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 called	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Open	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 children	punct
22	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 children	amod
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 door	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 here	punct
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mother	nmod:poss
26	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 here	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 here	cop
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 Open	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 brought	cc
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 brought	aux
31	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 Open	conj
32	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 brought	obj
33	back	back	ADV	_	31 brought	advmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 brought	obl
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 each	case
37	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	31 brought	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 you	case
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 each	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	wolf		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	knock	participle	wolf not said here			at the door of the house	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
3	call	past	wolf not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	open	infinitive	wolf not said here	the door and dear children			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
5	is	present	your mother			here property	tree rules
6	bring back	present · perfect	wolf not said here	something		with goat; for each	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent something=Theme

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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