The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 97

At sunset, however, as no sound could be heard through the door, the princess grew quite frightened, and made such a noise that the prince was forced to draw back the bolt and let her come in.

Who acts: princess, prince · What happens: hear, grow, frighten, make, force, draw back · To what, where: sound, door, noise, prince, bolt, princess

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, prince), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 sunset	case
2	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sunset	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 sound	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 sound	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 sound	det
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	nsubj:pass
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 heard	aux:pass
11	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grew	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 princess	det
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grew	nsubj
18	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	conj
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 frightened	advmod
20	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 grew	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 made	cc
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 grew	conj
24	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	26 noise	det:predet
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 noise	det
26	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 forced	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 prince	det
29	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 forced	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 forced	aux:pass
31	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 made	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 draw	mark
33	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 forced	xcomp
34	back	back	ADV	_	33 draw	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bolt	det
36	bolt	bolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 draw	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 let	cc
38	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 draw	conj
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 let	obj
40	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 let	xcomp
41	in	in	ADV	_	40 come	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hear	could · passive		no sound	the door	sunset	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	grow	past	the princess				tree rules
3	frighten	participle	the princess not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	make	past	the princess not said here	such noise			tree rules
5	force	past · passive		the prince			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
6	draw back	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	the bolt			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bolt=Theme
7	let	infinitive	the prince not said here	princess			tree rules
8	come in	infinitive	princess not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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