Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 73

And the father knocked quite politely at a door, as if he were a stranger, and then they both went in.

Who acts: father, children · What happens: knock, be, go in · To what, where: stranger

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, children), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 knocked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 father	det
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knocked	nsubj
4	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 politely	advmod
6	politely	politely	ADV	_	4 knocked	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knocked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stranger	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 stranger	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 stranger	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stranger	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stranger	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stranger	det
16	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knocked	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 went	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 went	nsubj
21	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	22 went	advmod
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knocked	conj
23	in	in	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past	the father			at a door; politely property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	father	a stranger			tree rules
3	go in	past	children = child		then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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