The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 19

He knocked at the door with his fist, and said that he wanted to enter; but the giant, to whom the castle belonged, only answered: “I know who you are.

Who acts: prince, castle, I, you · What happens: knock, say, want, enter, belong, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, castle, I, 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 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past 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 knocked	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 fist	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fist	nmod:poss
8	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 wanted	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wanted	nsubj
14	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 enter	mark
16	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wanted	xcomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 giant	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 giant	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 giant	det
20	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knocked	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 whom	punct
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 whom	case
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 knocked	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 castle	det
25	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 belonged	nsubj
26	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 whom	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 answered	punct
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 answered	advmod
29	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	parataxis
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 know	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 know	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 know	nsubj
33	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 answered	ccomp
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	33 know	ccomp
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 who	nsubj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 who	cop
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	knock	past	prince	with prince's fist; at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient with fist=Instrument
2	say speech: assert	past	prince not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want	past	prince		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	enter not said to happen	to-infinitive	prince not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	belong	past	the castle		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
6	answer speech: assert	past			tree rules
7	know in a quote	present	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is a in a quote	present	you		tree rules

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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