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title: _Knock at the Knocker on the Door, Pull the Bell at the side,_ — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Knock at the Knocker on the Door, Pull the Bell at the side,_ Who acts: Knock. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _how to Get Into This Book._, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, \_how to Get Into This Book.\_, sentence 1

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\_Knock at the Knocker on the Door, Pull the Bell at the side,\_

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**Who acts:** Knock · **What happens:** pull · **To what, where:** Bell, side

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, \_how to Get Into This Book.\_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knock), 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:pg7439:2:1
# text = _Knock at the Knocker on the Door, Pull the Bell at the side,_
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Knocker	Knocker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Bell	Bell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | infinitive | Knock at the Knocker on the Door | the Bell |  | the side |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent bell=Theme at side=Asset |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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