Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 7

It was not long before someone knocked at the house-door and called: ‘Open the door, dear children; your mother is here, and has brought something back with her for each of you.’

Who acts: mind, someone, mother · What happens: not be, 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 (mind, someone, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 knocked	mark
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 knocked	nsubj
7	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	12 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 door	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 house	punct
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knocked	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 called	cc
14	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knocked	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 Open	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 Open	punct
17	Open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 called	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Open	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 children	punct
21	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 children	amod
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 door	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 here	punct
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mother	nmod:poss
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 here	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 here	cop
27	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 Open	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 brought	punct
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	17 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	_	4 long	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	mind		long property	tree rules
2	knock	past	someone		at the house door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
3	call	past	someone not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	open	infinitive	someone 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	someone 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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