The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 235
She knocked at the door, as usual, but Snowdrop put her head out of the window and called out:
Who acts: SNOWDROP · What happens: knock, put, call out · To what, where: head, window
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SNOWDROP), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knocked | nsubj |
| 2 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knocked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 usual | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 usual | case |
| 8 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 knocked | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 11 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 put | nsubj |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knocked | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 window | det |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 called | cc |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knocked | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 called | compound:prt |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | past | SNOWDROP | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | ||||
| 2 | put | past | Snowdrop | SNOWDROP's head | the window | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme out window=Destination | |||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | participle | SNOWDROP not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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