--- title: Then a sweet voice called out in the room, "Tip-tap, tip-tap, who ra… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then a sweet voice called out in the room, "Tip-tap, tip-tap, who raps at my door?" and the children answered, "the wind, the wind, the child of heaven"; and they went on eating without interruption. Who acts: tip tap, children. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tip tap, children), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:8:64 # text = Then a sweet voice called out in the room, "Tip-tap, tip-tap, who raps at my door?" and the children answered, "the wind, the wind, the child of heaven"; and they went on eating without interruption. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 tap tap NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 tap tap NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 raps rap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ? ? PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ; ; PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 48 on on SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 49 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 47 advcl _ _ 50 without without ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 interruption interruption NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call out** *speech: ask* | participle · passive | | a sweet voice | | the room and Tip tap and tip tap | then | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **rap** *in a quote* | present | tip tap | | | | | at my door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | | 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the children | the wind and the wind and the child of heaven | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wind=Eventuality | | 4 | **go** | past | children *= child* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **eat** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | without interruption | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/65/) - ↑ back to [Hansel and Grethel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/)