Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 99

One day, in the following spring, there came a knock at the door of the house where Ib's old mother lived; and when they opened it, lo and behold, in stepped the boatman and Christina.

Who acts: knock, old mother, door · What happens: follow, come, live, open, step · To what, where: knock, boatman

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knock, old mother, door), 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 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spring	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 spring	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spring	det
6	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 spring	amod
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 came	expl
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 knock	det
12	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 door	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knock	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 door	nmod
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 lived	advmod
20	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 mother	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Ib	case
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mother	amod
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lived	nsubj
24	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 house	acl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 stepped	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 stepped	cc
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 opened	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 opened	nsubj
29	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 stepped	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 opened	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lo	punct
32	lo	lo	INTJ	_	29 opened	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 behold	cc
34	behold	behold	INTJ	_	32 lo	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stepped	punct
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 stepped	case
37	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 boatman	det
39	boatman	boatman	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stepped	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 Christina	cc
41	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 boatman	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	a knock at the door of the house		there	day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	live	past	Ib's old mother				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	open	past	door	knock			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme lo=Destination
5	step	past	a knock at the door of the house not said here	the boatman and Christina			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location boatman=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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