--- title: "Will it ever knock at my door again?" said the man, and he gazed at… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Will it ever knock at my door again?" said the man, and he gazed at the door, so that black spots came before his eyes and upon the floor; he did not know if it was blood, or mourning crape from the dark heavy days. Who acts: floor, man, black spots. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian And --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/17/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Sa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/) / 17 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 17 "Will it ever knock at my door again?" said the man, and he gazed at the door, so that black spots came before his eyes and upon the floor; he did not know if it was blood, or mourning crape from the dark heavy days. **Who acts:** floor, man, black spots · **What happens:** knock, say, gaze, come, not know, be · **To what, where:** eyes, blood, crape · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (floor, man, black spots), 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:pg27200:211:17 # text = "Will it ever knock at my door again?" said the man, and he gazed at the door, so that black spots came before his eyes and upon the floor; he did not know if it was blood, or mourning crape from the dark heavy days. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 5 advmod _ _ 5 knock knock VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 again again ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 27 mark _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 fixed _ _ 25 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 28 before before ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 upon upon ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 40 if if SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 or or CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 mourning mourn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 47 crape crape NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 48 from from ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 50 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 51 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **knock** *in a quote* | future | floor | | | | ever; again | at my door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **gaze** | past | man | | | | | at the door | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at door=Theme | | 4 | **come** | past | black spots | | | man's eyes and the floor | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=Location | | 5 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | man | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | floor | blood | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **mourn** | gerund | the man *not said here* | crape | | | day | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crape=Stimulus | 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/18/) - ↑ back to [The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/)