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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 11

By and by he was awakened by a noise which sounded like a dog scratching at the door, and he suddenly felt frightened, why he did not know.

Who acts: noise, dog, Antoine · What happens: awaken, sound, scratch, feel, not know · To what, where: Antoine

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, dog, Antoine), 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

markccconjnsubjaux:passadvclcasedetoblnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblaclcasedetoblpunctccnsubjadvmodxcomppunctadvmodnsubjauxadvmodconjpunctrootBySCONJandCCONJbyADPhePRONwasAUXawakenedVERBbyADPaDETnoiseNOUNwhichPRONsoundedVERBlikeADPaDETdogNOUNscratchingVERBatADPtheDETdoorNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONsuddenlyADVfeltVERBfrightenedADJ,PUNCTwhyADVhePRONdidAUXnotPARTknowVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BybySCONJ_6 awakenedmark
2andandCCONJ_3 bycc
3bybyADP_1 Byconj
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 awakenednsubj
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 awakenedaux:pass
6awakenedawakenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass23 feltadvcl
7bybyADP_9 noisecase
8aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 noisedet
9noisenoiseNOUNNumber=Sing6 awakenedobl
10whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel11 soundednsubj
11soundedsoundVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 noiseacl:relcl
12likelikeADP_14 dogcase
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 dogdet
14dogdogNOUNNumber=Sing11 soundedobl
15scratchingscratchVERBVerbForm=Ger14 dogacl
16atatADP_18 doorcase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 doordet
18doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing15 scratchingobl
19,,PUNCT_23 feltpunct
20andandCCONJ_23 feltcc
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 feltnsubj
22suddenlysuddenlyADV_23 feltadvmod
23feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
24frightenedfrightenedADJDegree=Pos23 feltxcomp
25,,PUNCT_30 knowpunct
26whywhyADVPronType=Int30 knowadvmod
27hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 knownsubj
28diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 knowaux
29notnotPARTPolarity=Neg30 knowadvmod
30knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf23 feltconj
31..PUNCT_23 feltpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1awakenpast · passivea noiseAntoinevn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
2soundpasta noiselike a dogvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3scratchgerunda dog not said hereat the doorvn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
4feelpastAntoinefrightened, suddenly propertyvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5not knowpast · do-supportAntoinevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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