The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 13
He knocked at the door, which was opened noiselessly and by invisible hands.
Who acts: son · What happens: knock, open · To what, where: door
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 door | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knocked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 opened | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 opened | aux:pass |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 door | acl |
| 10 | noiselessly | noiselessly | ADV | _ | 9 opened | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hands | cc |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 13 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hands | amod |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 noiselessly | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | past | son | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | ||||
| 2 | open | past · passive | the door | noiselessly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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