The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 44

He strikes with the knocker: ‘Toc! toc!’

Who acts: Drakestail · What happens: strike

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drakestail), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 strikes	nsubj
2	strikes	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 knocker	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 knocker	det
5	knocker	knocker	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 strikes	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 toc	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 toc	punct
8	Toc	Toc	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 toc	compound
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 Toc	punct
10	toc	toc	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 strikes	parataxis
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 toc	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 strikes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	present	Drakestail					with the knocker	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with knocker=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.

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