The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 111
She knocked at the door, and a gruff voice called, ‘Come in!’
Who acts: tree, gruff voice · What happens: knock, call, come in · To what, where: gruff voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, gruff 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 | 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 | _ | 14 Come | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Come | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 9 | gruff | gruff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 voice | amod |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Come | nsubj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 voice | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Come | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Come | punct |
| 14 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 knocked | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 Come | advmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Come | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | past | tree | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a gruff voice not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come in | infinitive | a gruff voice | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 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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