The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 17

The Wolf was not long before he got to the old woman's house: he knocked at the door, _tap, tap_.

Who acts: Wolf, body · What happens: not be, get, knock

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, 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 (Wolf, body), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 long	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 got	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	14 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 house	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 woman	case
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 knocked	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knocked	nsubj
17	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 got	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 door	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 knocked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tap	punct
22	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tap	amod
23	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 door	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tap	punct
25	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 door	conj
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 knocked	punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the Wolf	long property	tree rules
2	get	past	body	to the old woman's house result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result
3	knock	past	body	at the door and _ tap and tap	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient

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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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