--- title: They knocked at the door, and when the woman opened it she exclaimed… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They knocked at the door, and when the woman opened it she exclaimed: “You naughty children, what a time you’ve slept in the wood! we thought you were never going to come back.” Who acts: pebbles, woman, You, we. 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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 (pebbles, woman, You, we), 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:pg503:35:40 # text = They knocked at the door, and when the woman opened it she exclaimed: “You naughty children, what a time you’ve slept in the wood! we thought you were never going to come back.” 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 naughty naughty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ’ve have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 slept sleep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 parataxis _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 31 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 ccomp _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 back back ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **knock** | past | pebbles *= pebble* | | | the door | | | tree rules | | 2 | **open** | past | the woman | door | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | woman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **child** *in a quote* | | You | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | a time *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Patient | | 6 | **sleep** *in a quote* | participle · passive | | naughty children | | the wood | time | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in wood=Location | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | we | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | past · progressive | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **come back** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/41/) - ↑ back to [Hansel and Grettel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/)