The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 25
In reply to his knock the lattice window was pushed open, and a voice inquired what it was he wanted.
Who acts: reply, voice · What happens: knock, push, inquire, be · To what, where: lattice window, reply
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 (reply, voice), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 reply | case |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 knock | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 knock | nmod:poss |
| 5 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 reply | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 window | det |
| 7 | lattice | lattice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 window | compound |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knock | obj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pushed | aux:pass |
| 10 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pushed | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 inquired | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 inquired | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 inquired | nsubj |
| 16 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pushed | parataxis |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 inquired | obj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wanted | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 wanted | cop |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wanted | nsubj |
| 21 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | infinitive | reply not said here | the lattice window | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent window=Patient | ||||
| 2 | push | past · passive | reply | open property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | participle | a voice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is | past | voice | want property | tree rules |
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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