Grimms' Fairy Tales, Second Story, sentence 1

When old Mr Fox was dead, the wolf came as a suitor, and knocked at the door, and the cat who was servant to Mrs Fox, opened it for him.

Who acts: old Mr Fox, dead, cat · What happens: be, come, knock, open · To what, where: servant, Mrs, wolf

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Second Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Mr Fox, dead, cat), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 dead	advmod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Fox	amod
3	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Fox	compound
4	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dead	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 came	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wolf	det
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 suitor	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 suitor	det
13	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knocked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 knocked	cc
16	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	parataxis
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 door	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knocked	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cat	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cat	det
23	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knocked	conj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 servant	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 servant	cop
26	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cat	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 Mrs	case
28	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 servant	nmod
29	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Mrs	flat
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 opened	punct
31	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 knocked	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 opened	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 opened	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	old Mr Fox			dead property	tree rules
2	come	past	dead			as a suitor	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	knock	past				at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
4	is a	past	the cat and servant	servant	Mrs		tree rules
5	open	past		wolf		for Fox	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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