Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess, sentence 6
All at once there was heard a violent knocking at the door, and the old King, the Prince's father, went out himself to open it.
Who acts: old King · What happens: hear, go out, open · To what, where: violent knocking, door, Prince, knocking
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Real Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old King), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 heard | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 heard | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 heard | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | aux:pass |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 knocking | det |
| 8 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 knocking | amod |
| 9 | knocking | knocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 King | amod |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 went | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 father | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Prince | case |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 King | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 King | punct |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 went | compound:prt |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 went | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 open | mark |
| 28 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 went | advcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 open | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | a violent knocking | the door; there | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: knocking=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | the old King and the Prince's father | Prince | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | open | to-infinitive | the old King and the Prince's father not said here | knocking | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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