The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 29

He gave a loud knock at the door, and an old woman’s voice answered from within, but as she did not seem to be hurrying herself to open it he redoubled his blows, and demanded to be let in imperiously, quite forgetting that he was no longer in his own kingdom.

Who acts: Prince, voice · What happens: give, answer, not seem, hurry, open, redouble · To what, where: loud knock, door, voice, knock, blows, own kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 knock	det
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 knock	amod
5	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 answered	cc
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 voice	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 woman	case
15	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 answered	nsubj
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
17	from	from	ADP	_	16 answered	obl
18	within	within	ADP	_	17 from	fixed
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seem	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 seem	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 seem	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 seem	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 seem	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 seem	advmod
25	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	28 hurrying	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 hurrying	aux
28	hurrying	hurry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 seem	advcl
29	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 hurrying	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 open	mark
31	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 hurrying	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 open	obj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 redoubled	nsubj
34	redoubled	redouble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 open	ccomp
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 blows	nmod:poss
36	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 redoubled	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 demanded	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 demanded	cc
39	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	42 let	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 let	aux:pass
42	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 demanded	ccomp
43	in	in	ADP	_	42 let	compound:prt
44	imperiously	imperiously	ADV	_	42 let	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 forgetting	punct
46	quite	quite	ADV	_	47 forgetting	advmod
47	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 demanded	advcl
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 longer	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 longer	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 longer	cop
51	no	no	ADV	_	52 longer	advmod
52	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	47 forgetting	advmod
53	in	in	ADP	_	56 kingdom	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 kingdom	nmod:poss
55	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 kingdom	amod
56	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 forgetting	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	Prince	a loud knock	the door		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent knock=Theme at door=Asset
2	answer speech: assert	past	a old woman's voice				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not seem	past · do-support	voice				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	hurry	to-infinitive · progressive	voice not said here	voice			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Agent
5	open	to-infinitive	voice not said here	knock			tree rules
6	redouble	past	Prince	Prince's blows			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blow=Patient
7	demand speech: request	past	Prince not said here				vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
8	let in	to-infinitive · passive				imperiously property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»
9	forget	gerund	Prince not said here		Prince's own kingdom		tree rules
10	not is	past	Prince			long property	tree rules
11	blow		Prince				nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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