--- title: The husband arrived at the door and said, "Open the door, little wif… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The husband arrived at the door and said, "Open the door, little wife; open, I say!"--The wife replied, "Thou art not a great nobleman, so open the door thyself. Who acts: husband, Thou. 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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 (husband, Thou), 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:pg29672:3:98 # text = The husband arrived at the door and said, "Open the door, little wife; open, I say!"--The wife replied, "Thou art not a great nobleman, so open the door thyself. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ! ! PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 -- -- PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 27 replied reply VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nsubj _ _ 31 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 nobleman nobleman NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 thyself thyself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** | past | the husband | | | the door | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the husband *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **open** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the door and little wife | | | | the wife and a great nobleman *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | the husband *= husband* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle | | the wife and a great nobleman *not said here* | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | Thou | a great nobleman | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **open** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the door | | | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent door=Theme thyself=Destination | 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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/99/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/)