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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 61

This was the tower in which dwelt the witch; and seizing the knocker he gave three loud knocks, which were echoed in the hollows of the rocks around.

Who acts: This, tower, knocker · What happens: be, dwell, seize, give, echo · To what, where: tower, witch, knocker, three loud knocks, hollows

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, tower, knocker), 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

nsubjcopdetcasensubjacl:relcldetobjpunctccapposdetobjnsubjacl:relclnummodamodobjpunctnsubj:passaux:passacl:relclcasedetoblcasedetnmodadvmodpunctrootThisPRONwasAUXtheDETtowerNOUNinADPwhichPRONdweltVERBtheDETwitchNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJseizingVERBtheDETknockerNOUNhePRONgaveVERBthreeNUMloudADJknocksNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONwereAUXechoedVERBinADPtheDEThollowsNOUNofADPtheDETrocksNOUNaroundADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem4 towernsubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 towercop
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 towerdet
4towertowerNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
5ininADP_6 whichcase
6whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel7 dweltnsubj
7dweltdwellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 toweracl:relcl
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 witchdet
9witchwitchNOUNNumber=Sing7 dweltobj
10;;PUNCT_12 seizingpunct
11andandCCONJ_12 seizingcc
12seizingseizeVERBVerbForm=Ger4 towerappos
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 knockerdet
14knockerknockerNOUNNumber=Sing12 seizingobj
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 gavensubj
16gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 knockeracl:relcl
17threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card19 knocksnummod
18loudloudADJDegree=Pos19 knocksamod
19knocksknockNOUNNumber=Plur16 gaveobj
20,,PUNCT_23 echoedpunct
21whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel23 echoednsubj:pass
22werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 echoedaux:pass
23echoedechoVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 knocksacl:relcl
24ininADP_26 hollowscase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 hollowsdet
26hollowshollowNOUNNumber=Plur23 echoedobl
27ofofADP_29 rockscase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 rocksdet
29rocksrockNOUNNumber=Plur26 hollowsnmod
30aroundaroundADV_29 rocksadvmod
31..PUNCT_4 towerpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastThisthe towertree rules
2dwellpastthe towerthe witchvn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme witch=Location
3seizegerundthe knockervn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knocker=Theme
4givepastknockerthree loud knocksvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knock=Theme
5echopast · passivethree loud knocksthe hollows of the rocksvn sound_existence-47.4 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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