--- title: When she reached home, she bolted the back door, but the front door… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When she reached home, she bolted the back door, but the front door she took off the hinges, and said, ‘Frederick told me to lock the door, but surely it can nowhere be so safe if I take it with me.’ Who acts: Frederick, front door, 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 (Frederick, front door, 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:pg2591:29:63 # text = When she reached home, she bolted the back door, but the front door she took off the hinges, and said, ‘Frederick told me to lock the door, but surely it can nowhere be so safe if I take it with me.’ 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 bolted bolt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 18 off off ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 hinges hinge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Frederick Frederick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 lock lock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 35 surely surely ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 38 nowhere nowhere ADV RB PronType=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 42 if if SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | past | Frederick | | | | | home *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bolt** | past | Frederick | the back door | | | | | vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent door=Patient | | 3 | **take off** | past | the front door | the hinges | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hinge=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the front door *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Frederick | | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **lock** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Frederick *not said here* | the door | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | | 7 | **is** | can | door | | | | | nowhere, safe, surely *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | door | | | | with me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:** «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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/29/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/29/64/) - ↑ back to [Frederick and Catherine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/29/)