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title: He gave a loud knock at the door, and an old woman’s voice answered… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 29

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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.

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**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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:36:29
# text = 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.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	_
18	within	within	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux	_	_
28	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
29	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	redoubled	redouble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	ccomp	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	imperiously	imperiously	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
51	no	no	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	47	advmod	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
55	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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