English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 23

That very evening they heard something tap tapping at the door low down, and a voice cried out:

Who acts: eyes, something tap, voice · What happens: hear, tap, cry out · To what, where: something tap

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Well of the World's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, something tap, 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 evening	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 evening	advmod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl:unmarked
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 tap	compound
7	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
8	tapping	tap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 heard	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 door	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tapping	obl
12	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 down	advmod
13	down	down	ADV	_	8 tapping	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cried	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 voice	det
17	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cried	nsubj
18	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 cried	compound:prt
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	eyes = eye	something tap	evening		tree rules
2	tap	gerund	something tap not said here			at the door; down property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
3	cry out speech: express	past	a voice				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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