The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 82

They knocked at the door, and a good woman came and open'd it; she asked them what they wished.

Who acts: brothers, good woman, woman · What happens: knock, come, open, ask, wish · To what, where: door, brothers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, good woman, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg29021:489): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 open	cc
13	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
14	'd	'd	X	_	13 open	goeswith
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 open	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 asked	nsubj
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	parataxis
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 asked	iobj
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 wished	obj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wished	nsubj
22	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 asked	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	knock	past	brothers = brother			at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	come	past	a good woman				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	open	past	a good woman not said here	door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	woman		brothers = brother		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	wish	past	brothers = brother				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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