The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 147
“Heave a-hoy!” they shouted as each chest came up.
Who acts: sailors, chest · What happens: heave, shout, come up · To what, where: hoy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sailors, chest), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Heave | punct |
| 2 | Heave | heave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 shouted | ccomp |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hoy | det |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 a | punct |
| 5 | hoy | hoy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Heave | obj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Heave | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Heave | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shouted | nsubj |
| 9 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 chest | det |
| 12 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shouted | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heave in a quote | infinitive | a hoy | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoy=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | sailors = sailor | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come up | past | each chest | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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