Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 91

He knocks at the door, and a voice cries "What do you want?" "

Who acts: evil, voice, you · What happens: knock, cry, want · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil, voice, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocks	nsubj
2	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocks	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cries	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cries	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 voice	det
9	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cries	nsubj
10	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 knocks	conj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 want	obj
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 want	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 want	nsubj
15	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cries	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	knock	present	evil	at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	cry speech: express	present	a voice		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want in a quote	present · do-support	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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