The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 99

He knocked at the window, and the miller put his head out and asked what he wanted.

Who acts: Hunter, miller · What happens: knock, put out, ask, want · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter, miller), 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 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 window	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 window	det
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 put	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 miller	det
9	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	nsubj
10	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	10 put	compound:prt
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asked	cc
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 wanted	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wanted	nsubj
18	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 asked	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	knock	past	Hunter		at the window	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at window=Patient
2	put out	past	the miller	Hunter's head		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
3	ask speech: ask	past	Hunter not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	want	past	Hunter			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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