The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 40

They knocked at the door, and when the woman opened it she exclaimed: “You naughty children, what a time you’ve slept in the wood! we thought you were never going to come back.”

Who acts: pebbles, woman, You, we · What happens: knock, open, exclaim, child, have, sleep · To what, where: door, time, naughty children, wood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pebbles, woman, You, we), 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	_	14 exclaimed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 exclaimed	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 opened	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 opened	nsubj
11	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 exclaimed	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 opened	obj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 exclaimed	nsubj
14	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 children	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 children	punct
17	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 children	nsubj
18	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 children	amod
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 exclaimed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 slept	punct
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 slept	nsubj:pass
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slept	obl:unmarked
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 ’ve	nsubj
25	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 time	acl:relcl
26	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 children	parataxis
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 wood	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wood	det
29	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slept	obl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 knocked	punct
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 thought	nsubj
32	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	parataxis
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 going	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 going	aux
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	36 going	advmod
36	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 thought	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 come	mark
38	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 going	xcomp
39	back	back	ADV	_	38 come	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knocked	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	knock	past	pebbles = pebble		the door		tree rules
2	open	past	the woman	door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	exclaim speech: express	past	woman				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	child in a quote		You				tree rules
5	have in a quote	present	you	a time not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Patient
6	sleep in a quote	participle · passive		naughty children	the wood	time	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in wood=Location
7	think speech: other in a quote	past	we				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	not go in a quote	past · progressive	you				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	come back in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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