--- title: She was surprised to find the cottage-door standing open, and when s… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She was surprised to find the cottage-door standing open, and when she went into the room, she had such a strange feeling that she said to herself: ‘Oh dear! how uneasy I feel today, and at other times I like being with grandmother so much.’ Who acts: cap, cottage door, I. 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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 (cap, cottage door, I), 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:pg2591:23:31 # text = She was surprised to find the cottage-door standing open, and when she went into the room, she had such a strange feeling that she said to herself: ‘Oh dear! how uneasy I feel today, and at other times I like being with grandmother so much.’ 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 cottage cottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 26 det:predet _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 33 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 35 discourse _ _ 35 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ! ! PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ _ 37 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 38 uneasy uneasy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 parataxis _ _ 41 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 44 at at ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obl _ _ 47 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 csubj _ _ 49 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 51 cop _ _ 50 with with ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 parataxis _ _ 52 so so ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 53 much much ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | cap | | | | | surprised *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | cap *not said here* | the cottage door | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic | | 3 | **stand** | gerund | the cottage door *not said here* | | | | | open *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go** | past | cap | | | the room | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **have** | past | cap | such strange feeling | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | cap | | cap | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | | 7 | **feel** | present | I | | | | today | uneasy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **like** | present | I | | | | time | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 9 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | with grandmother | tree rules | 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/32/) - ↑ back to [Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/)