The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 42

He bent his steps to the dwelling of the Tanuki and knocked at the door.

Who acts: knave · What happens: bend, knock, step · To what, where: steps

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knave), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bent	nsubj
2	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 steps	nmod:poss
4	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bent	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 dwelling	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dwelling	det
7	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bent	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Tanuki	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Tanuki	det
10	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dwelling	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 knocked	cc
12	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bent	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 door	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knocked	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bend	past	knave	knave's steps	to the dwelling of the Tanuki result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent step=Patient to dwelling=Result
2	knock	past	knave not said here		at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
3	step		knave			nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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