The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 73

He knocked at the door, which was opened by a little old woman who asked, ‘What do you want at this late hour in the midst of this great forest?’

Who acts: stag, little old woman, you · What happens: knock, open, ask, want · To what, where: door, midst

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stag, little old woman, you), 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	by	by	ADP	_	14 woman	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 woman	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opened	obl
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 asked	nsubj
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 woman	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 want	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 want	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 want	obj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 want	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 want	nsubj
22	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knocked	ccomp
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 hour	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 hour	det
25	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hour	amod
26	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 want	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 midst	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 midst	det
29	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 want	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 forest	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 forest	det
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 forest	amod
33	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 midst	nmod
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 want	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	knock	past	stag		the door		tree rules
2	open	past · passive	a little old woman	the door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	a little old woman				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	want	present · do-support	you		the midst of this great forest	hour	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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 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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