English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 41

However, all of a sudden she heard a sort of a knocking low down on the door.

Who acts: all · What happens: hear, knock, sort · To what, where: sort, door

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all), 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	However	however	ADV	_	8 heard	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 heard	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sudden	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sudden	det
6	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 all	nmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sort	det
10	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	18 door	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 door	det
13	knocking	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 door	nsubj
14	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 down	advmod
15	down	down	ADV	_	18 door	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 door	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sort	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	all	a sort of a door	however property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus
2	knock	gerund				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	sort			a door		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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