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title: Soon afterwards there was another knock, and another fox was at the… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon afterwards there was another knock, and another fox was at the door who wished to woo Mrs Fox. Who acts: knock, fox, door. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 25

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Soon afterwards there was another knock, and another fox was at the door who wished to woo Mrs Fox.

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**Who acts:** knock, fox, door · **What happens:** be, wish, woo · **To what, where:** door, Mrs Fox

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knock, fox, door), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2591:54:25
# text = Soon afterwards there was another knock, and another fox was at the door who wished to woo Mrs Fox.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	woo	woo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | another knock |  |  | there |  | afterwards, soon *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | another fox |  |  | the door |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wish** | past | the door |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **woo** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the door *not said here* | Mrs Fox |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Patient |

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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.

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**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.

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