The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 109

Then it knocked twice at the door, and cried ‘Open,’ but no one answered.

Who acts: plan, one · What happens: knock, cry, answer

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plan, one), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 knocked	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knocked	nsubj
3	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 knocked	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knocked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cried	cc
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knocked	conj
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 Open	punct
12	Open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cried	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Open	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 Open	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 answered	cc
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 answered	nsubj
18	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past	plan	then	at the door; twice property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	plan not said here		open property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	past	no one			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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