The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 7
Then he heard something tapping at the window pane, and a thin voice said, ‘Let me in, and I will help you.’
Who acts: he, thin voice, I · What happens: hear, tap, say, let in, help · To what, where: something, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, thin voice, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | tapping | tap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 something | acl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 pane | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pane | det |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pane | compound |
| 9 | pane | pane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tapping | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 13 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 voice | amod |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Let | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Let | punct |
| 18 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 Let | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Let | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 help | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 help | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 help | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 help | aux |
| 25 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 help | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 help | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | he | something | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | tap | gerund | at the window pane | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at pane=Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a thin voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | let in | infinitive | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 5 | help | future | I | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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