--- title: They knocked at the door, and when the woman opened it and saw that… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They knocked at the door, and when the woman opened it and saw that it was Hansel and Gretel, she said: ‘You naughty children, why have you slept so long in the forest?--we thought you were never coming back at all!’ Who acts: Hansel, woman, door, You. 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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 (Hansel, woman, door, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:20:40 # text = They knocked at the door, and when the woman opened it and saw that it was Hansel and Gretel, she said: ‘You naughty children, why have you slept so long in the forest?--we thought you were never coming back at all!’ 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 Hansel Hansel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 Gretel Gretel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 naughty naughty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 31 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 slept sleep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 parataxis _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 -- -- PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 43 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 44 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 45 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 46 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 ccomp _ _ 47 back back ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 48 at at ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **knock** | past | Hansel | | | | | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | | 2 | **open** | past | the woman | door | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 3 | **see** | past | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | past | door | Hansel and Gretel | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **child** | | You | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **sleep** | present · perfect | you | | | the forest | | long *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | | 8 | **think** *speech: other* | past | we | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 9 | **not** **come back** | past · progressive | you | | | all | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location | 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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/41/) - ↑ back to [Hansel and Gretel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/)