Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 19

So now the wretch went for the third time to the house-door, knocked at it and said: ‘Open the door for me, children, your dear little mother has come home, and has brought every one of you something back from the forest with her.’

Who acts: wretch, dear little mother · What happens: go, knock, say, open, come, bring · To what, where: house door, door, something, forest · 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 (wretch, dear little 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 went	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wretch	det
4	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 door	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 house	punct
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knocked	punct
16	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 door	acl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knocked	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Open	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Open	punct
23	Open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 door	det
25	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Open	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 Open	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 children	punct
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 Open	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 come	punct
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 mother	nmod:poss
32	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 mother	amod
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 mother	amod
34	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 come	nsubj
35	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 come	aux
36	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 Open	parataxis
37	home	home	ADV	_	36 come	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 brought	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 brought	cc
40	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 brought	aux
41	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 come	conj
42	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	43 one	det
43	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 something	nsubj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 you	case
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 one	nmod
46	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	41 brought	obj
47	back	back	ADV	_	50 forest	advmod
48	from	from	ADP	_	50 forest	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 forest	det
50	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 something	nmod
51	with	with	ADP	_	52 her	case
52	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 forest	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the wretch		the house door	now; time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
2	knock	participle		the house door not said here			at door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the wretch not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	open	infinitive		the door			for me; children obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
5	come	present · perfect	your dear little mother				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bring	present · perfect	your dear little mother not said here	something	the forest with mother			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent something=Theme from forest=Initial_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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