Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 20

One evening, as they were thus sitting comfortably together, someone knocked at the door as if he wished to be let in.

Who acts: girls, someone, lamb · What happens: sit, knock, wish, let in · To what, where: One evening · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, someone, lamb), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knocked	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sitting	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 sitting	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sitting	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sitting	aux
7	thus	thus	ADV	_	8 sitting	advmod
8	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 evening	acl:relcl
9	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	10 together	advmod
10	together	together	ADV	_	8 sitting	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 evening	punct
12	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 knocked	nsubj
13	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 door	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knocked	obl
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 wished	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 wished	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wished	nsubj
20	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 knocked	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	23 let	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	aux:pass
23	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 wished	ccomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	23 let	compound:prt
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	girls = girl	One evening not said here		thus, together property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location evening=Theme
2	knock	past	someone		evening	at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
3	wish	past	lamb				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	let in not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»

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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