More English Fairy Tales, John D. Batten, sentence 4
_Knock at the Knocker on the Door, Pull the Bell at the side.
Who acts: Knock · What happens: pull · To what, where: Bell, side
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, John D. Batten. 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.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Knock | punct |
| 2 | Knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Pull | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Knocker | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Knocker | det |
| 5 | Knocker | Knocker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Knock | nmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Door | det |
| 8 | Door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Knock | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Knock | punct |
| 10 | Pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bell | det |
| 12 | Bell | Bell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Pull | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 side | det |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Pull | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Pull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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