The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 145

Then a little cough was heard at the door, and Kabo trembled, for he knew it was the cough of Pivi!

Who acts: Kabo, cough · What happens: hear, tremble, know, be · To what, where: little cough, door, cough · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kabo, cough), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 heard	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cough	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cough	amod
4	cough	cough	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux:pass
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 trembled	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 trembled	cc
12	Kabo	Kabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 trembled	nsubj
13	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 knew	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 trembled	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cough	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cough	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cough	det
21	cough	cough	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 knew	ccomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Pivi	case
23	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 cough	nmod
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · passive		a little cough	the door	then		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	tremble	past	Kabo					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	past	Kabo					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	cough	the cough			of Pivi	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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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