The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 107

Anxiously he knocked at the door, and asked the woman who opened it after his parents.

Who acts: man, woman · What happens: knock, ask, open · To what, where: woman, door

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, woman), 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	Anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	3 knocked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knocked	nsubj
3	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knocked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asked	cc
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knocked	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 opened	nsubj
13	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 woman	acl:relcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 opened	obj
15	after	after	ADP	_	17 parents	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 parents	nmod:poss
17	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 opened	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past	man				at the door; anxiously property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	man not said here		the woman			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient
3	open	past	the woman	door		after man's parents		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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