English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 5

They knocked at the door, and a woman came to it, who said: “What do you want?”

Who acts: man, woman, you · What happens: knock, come, say, want · To what, where: door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, woman, you), 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	_	10 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 woman	det
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 want	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 want	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 want	obj
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 want	aux
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 want	nsubj
21	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 want	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	knock	past	man		at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	come	past	a woman	door		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location
3	say speech: ask	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	want in a quote	present · do-support	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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