The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 60

They knocked at the door, and a good woman came and opened it; she asked them what they would have.

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

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. 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.

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	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	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 opened	cc
13	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 opened	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	nsubj
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	obj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 have	obj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 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	have	would	brothers = brother				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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