The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 83
But in the middle of the night the Goblin awoke, hearing a great noise and knocking against the shutters--people hammering from outside.
Who acts: Goblin, people · What happens: awake, hear, knock, hammer · To what, where: middle, great noise, shutters
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 (Goblin, people), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 awoke | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 middle | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 middle | det |
| 4 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 awoke | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 middle | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Goblin | det |
| 9 | Goblin | Goblin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 awoke | nsubj |
| 10 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hearing | punct |
| 12 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 awoke | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 noise | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 noise | amod |
| 15 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hearing | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 knocking | cc |
| 17 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 hearing | conj |
| 18 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 shutters | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 shutters | det |
| 20 | shutters | shutter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 knocking | obl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 people | punct |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 shutters | appos |
| 23 | hammering | hammer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 people | acl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 outside | case |
| 25 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 23 hammering | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the Goblin | the middle of the night | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the Goblin not said here | a great noise | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | knock | gerund | the Goblin not said here | the shutters | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against shutter=Location | ||||
| 4 | hammer | gerund | people not said here | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: 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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