The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 73
And when he got to the house he knocked at the door and said, ‘My sister dear, open; I’m here.’
Who acts: King, I · What happens: get, knock, say, be · 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 (King, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 knocked | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 knocked | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 knocked | nsubj |
| 9 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knocked | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 knocked | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dear | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 dear | punct |
| 17 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sister | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dear | nsubj |
| 19 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 open | punct |
| 21 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dear | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 ’m | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 ’m | nsubj |
| 24 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 knocked | conj |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 ’m | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 knocked | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | King | to the house result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | ||||
| 2 | knock | past | King | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | be | present | I | here | vn exist-47.1 «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 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/73/