Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 19
‘Not till you have opened the door for me,’ answered the man.
What happens: not open, answer · To what, where: you, man
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 opened | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 opened | advmod |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 opened | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 opened | aux |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 answered | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 opened | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 opened | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not open | present · perfect · passive | you | for me | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme door=Destination | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality |
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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