The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 68

They knocked and called, but nothing stirred within but the house cat, and at last the blacksmith had to be fetched to open the door.

Who acts: pockets, last blacksmith · What happens: knock, call, stir, have, fetch, open · To what, where: door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pockets, last blacksmith), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 called	cc
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nothing	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 nothing	cc
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knocked	parataxis
8	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 nothing	acl
9	within	within	ADP	_	13 cat	case
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 cat	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cat	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cat	compound
13	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stirred	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 blacksmith	amod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 blacksmith	det
19	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	23 fetched	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 fetched	aux:pass
23	fetched	fetch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 had	xcomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 open	mark
25	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 fetched	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 open	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	knock	past	pockets = pocket			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	call	past	pockets = pocket not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stir	participle			within the house cat	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	past	the last blacksmith			tree rules
5	fetch	to-infinitive · passive	the last blacksmith not said here			tree rules
6	open	to-infinitive	the last blacksmith not said here	the door		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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: «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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