--- title: It was not long before someone knocked at the house-door and called:… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: It was not long before someone knocked at the house-door and called: ‘Open the door, dear children; your mother is here, and has brought something back with her for each of you.’ Who acts: mind, someone, mother. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/35/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/35/) / 7 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 7 It was not long before someone knocked at the house-door and called: ‘Open the door, dear children; your mother is here, and has brought something back with her for each of you.’ **Who acts:** mind, someone, mother · **What happens:** not be, knock, call, open, be, bring back · **To what, where:** door, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind, someone, mother), 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:pg2591:35:7 # text = It was not long before someone knocked at the house-door and called: ‘Open the door, dear children; your mother is here, and has brought something back with her for each of you.’ 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 before before SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nsubj _ _ 7 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 32 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 31 obj _ _ 33 back back ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 31 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | past | mind | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **knock** | past | someone | | | | | at the house door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | | 3 | **call** | past | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **open** | infinitive | someone *not said here* | the door and dear children | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | your mother | | | | | here *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **bring back** | present · perfect | someone *not said here* | something | | | | with goat; for each | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent something=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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/35/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/35/8/) - ↑ back to [The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/35/)