Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 5
The maid heard someone standing at the house-door, knocking.
Who acts: maid · What happens: hear, stand, knock · To what, where: someone, house door
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 (maid), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 maid | det |
| 2 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 someone | acl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 door | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 house | punct |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knocking | punct |
| 12 | knocking | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 standing | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the maid | someone | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | the house door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | |||||
| 3 | knock | gerund | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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