The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 38

Thereupon she brought him a pipe and tobacco, and he went into the room; but before long he heard a hammering and knocking on the outside of the door, and was told to open it.

Who acts: Princess, Irishman · What happens: bring, go, hear, knock, tell, open · To what, where: pipe, Irishman, room, hammering, outside · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Irishman), 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pipe	det
6	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tobacco	cc
8	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pipe	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 room	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 room	det
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 heard	cc
18	before	before	ADV	_	19 long	advmod
19	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 heard	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	nsubj
21	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hammering	det
23	hammering	hammering	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 knocking	cc
25	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 hammering	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 outside	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 outside	det
28	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 knocking	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 door	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 door	det
31	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 outside	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 told	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 told	cc
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 told	aux:pass
35	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 heard	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 open	mark
37	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 told	xcomp
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 open	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	Princess	a pipe and tobacco	Irishman		thereupon property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination pipe=Theme
2	go	past	Irishman			the room		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
3	hear	past	Irishman	a hammering			long property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hammering=Stimulus
4	knock	gerund	Irishman not said here			the outside of the door		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on outside=Location
5	tell speech: assert	past · passive	Irishman not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Topic
6	open not said to happen	to-infinitive	Irishman not said here	hammering				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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