The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 140
It was easy enough to get in, as there was a hole in the roof.
Who acts: hole · What happens: be, get in
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, 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 (hole), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 easy | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 easy | cop |
| 3 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 easy | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 easy | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 was | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 easy | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hole | det |
| 13 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 roof | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 roof | det |
| 16 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hole | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | easy, enough property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get in | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | be | past | a hole in the roof | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Project Gutenberg book 902 (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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