The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 51

When night came on it ran home, and knocking at the door of the little house cried:

Who acts: night, creature, knocking · What happens: come, run, knock, cry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, creature, knocking), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 cried	advcl
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 ran	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ran	nsubj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 ran	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cried	cc
10	knocking	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 cried	csubj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 door	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knocking	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 house	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 house	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 house	amod
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 door	nmod
18	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come	past	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	past	creature	home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	knock	gerund		at the door of the little house	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
4	cry speech: express	past	knocking		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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