The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 23

He then shut the door, and went into the grand-mother's bed, expecting Little Red Riding-Hood, who came some time afterwards, and knock'd at the door, _tap, tap_.

Who acts: pull, Riding · What happens: shut, go, expect, come, knock · To what, where: door, bed, Little Red

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 (pull, Riding), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shut	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 shut	advmod
3	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shut	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shut	conj
9	into	into	ADP	_	15 bed	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mother	det
11	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mother	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 grand	punct
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bed	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 mother	case
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 expecting	punct
17	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 went	advcl
18	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Red	amod
19	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 expecting	obj
20	Riding	Riding	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 came	nsubj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 Hood	punct
22	Hood	Hood	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Riding	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 expecting	acl:relcl
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl:unmarked
28	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	25 came	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 knock	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 knock	cc
31	knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 shut	parataxis
32	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 door	aux
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 door	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 door	det
35	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 knock	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tap	punct
37	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 tap	amod
38	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 door	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 tap	punct
40	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 door	conj
41	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 knock	punct
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	past	pull	the door		then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient
2	go	past	pull not said here		the grand mother's bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bed=Initial_Location
3	expect	gerund	pull not said here	Little Red				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent red=Theme
4	come	past	Riding and Hood			time	afterwards property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	knock	infinitive		the door and _ tap and tap				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent 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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