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title: At the third knock the door sprang open; and, when he had stilled th… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: At the third knock the door sprang open; and, when he had stilled the lions with the bread, he walked into a fine, large hall, where sat several enchanted Princes, from whose fingers he drew off the rings, and he also took away with him a sword and some bread which lay there. Who acts: door, sword. 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 25

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At the third knock the door sprang open; and, when he had stilled the lions with the bread, he walked into a fine, large hall, where sat several enchanted Princes, from whose fingers he drew off the rings, and he also took away with him a sword and some bread which lay there.

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**Who acts:** door, sword · **What happens:** knock, spring, still, walk, sit, enchant · **To what, where:** lions, fine large hall, several enchanted Princes, rings, sword

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, sword), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:17:25
# text = At the third knock the door sprang open; and, when he had stilled the lions with the bread, he walked into a fine, large hall, where sat several enchanted Princes, from whose fingers he drew off the rings, and he also took away with him a sword and some bread which lay there.
1	At	at	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
4	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	stilled	still	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
32	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	Princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	appos	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	off	off	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	also	also	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
50	away	away	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obl	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	57	det	_	_
57	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	_
58	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	59	nsubj	_	_
59	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	acl:relcl	_	_
60	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	59	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | infinitive | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spring** | past | the door |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **still** | past · perfect | door | the lions |  |  |  | with the bread | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lion=Patient with bread=Instrument |
| 4 | **walk** | past | door |  |  |  |  | into a fine large hall *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hall=Result |
| 5 | **sit** | past |  | several enchanted Princes |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prince=Theme |
| 6 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **draw off** | past | door | the rings |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |
| 8 | **take away** | past | door | a sword and some bread |  |  |  | with Prince; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 9 | **lie** | past | a sword and some bread |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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