The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 23
Why--’ but at this point a loud knock interrupted her lamentations.
Who acts: loud knock, knock · What happens: interrupt, lament · To what, where: lamentations, point
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (loud knock, knock), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 interrupted | cc |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 point | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 point | det |
| 7 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 interrupted | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 knock | det |
| 9 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 knock | amod |
| 10 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 interrupted | nsubj |
| 11 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lamentations | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lamentations | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 interrupted | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interrupt | past | a loud knock | knock's lamentations | this point | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lament | knock | nom lamentation «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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