The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 53

'Who is there?' cried the giant, as someone knocked loudly on the door of his house.

Who acts: someone · What happens: cry, knock · To what, where: giant, door

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (someone), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 is	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	aux:pass
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knocked	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 knocked	mark
12	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 knocked	nsubj
13	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
14	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	13 knocked	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 door	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knocked	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 house	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 house	nmod:poss
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 door	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present · passive		the giant					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: giant=Topic
2	knock	past	someone			the door of evil's house		loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on door=Location

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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