The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 24
The servant returned a third time to the little house and knocked at the door.
Who acts: servant · What happens: return, knock
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servant | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 house | amod |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 knocked | cc |
| 12 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 door | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knocked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the servant | time | to the little house result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | |||
| 2 | knock | past | the servant not said here | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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