The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 44
The Prince knocked, and a rasping woman’s voice told him to enter.
Who acts: Prince, voice · What happens: knock, rasp, tell, enter · To what, where: Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Prince, voice), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knocked | nsubj |
| 3 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | rasping | rasp | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 voice | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 woman | case |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | nsubj |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knocked | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 enter | mark |
| 14 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 told | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | past | the Prince | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | rasp | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | a rasping woman's voice | Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | enter not said to happen | to-infinitive | a rasping woman's voice not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: 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 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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