The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 53
But before he had opened his wings, a third drop fell, and he looked up, and saw—Ah! what did he see?
Who acts: third drop, cloud · What happens: open, fall, look up, see · To what, where: cloud
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 (third drop, cloud), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 opened | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opened | aux |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fell | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 opened | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 drop | det |
| 10 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 drop | amod |
| 11 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fell | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 looked | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fell | conj |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ah | punct |
| 22 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 12 fell | discourse |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ah | punct |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 see | obj |
| 25 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 see | aux |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 see | nsubj |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 Ah | acl:relcl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · perfect · passive | cloud | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme wing=Destination | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | a third drop | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look up | past | cloud | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | see | past | a third drop not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | see | past · do-support | cloud | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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