The Yellow Fairy Book, How to Tell a True Princess, sentence 8
There was a knocking heard at the Palace gate, and the old King went to open it.
Who acts: knocking, old King · What happens: be, hear, go, open · To what, where: knocking, Palace gate
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How to Tell a True Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knocking, old King), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 knocking | det |
| 4 | knocking | knocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 knocking | acl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 gate | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gate | det |
| 8 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gate | compound |
| 9 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 King | amod |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 open | mark |
| 17 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 went | xcomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 open | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a knocking | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | participle | a knocking not said here | the Palace gate | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the old King | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | open | to-infinitive | the old King not said here | knocking | 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 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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