Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 2
Suddenly a knock was given at the door, and a voice called, "Open! open!"
What happens: give, call · To what, where: knock, door, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 given | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 knock | det |
| 3 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 called | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 given | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Open | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Open | punct |
| 16 | Open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 called | xcomp |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
| 18 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 given | xcomp |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | a knock | the door | open, suddenly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme at door=Asset | |||
| 2 | call | participle · passive | a voice | open property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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