Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 25
Soon afterwards there was another knock, and another fox was at the door who wished to woo Mrs Fox.
Who acts: knock, fox, door · What happens: be, wish, woo · To what, where: door, Mrs Fox
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knock, fox, door), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 was | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 4 was | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 knock | det |
| 6 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 door | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 door | cc |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 fox | det |
| 10 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 door | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 door | cop |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 door | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knock | appos |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 wished | nsubj |
| 16 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 door | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 woo | mark |
| 18 | woo | woo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wished | xcomp |
| 19 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Fox | compound |
| 20 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 woo | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | another knock | there | afterwards, soon property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | another fox | the door | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wish | past | the door | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | woo not said to happen | to-infinitive | the door not said here | Mrs Fox | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Patient |
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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