The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 68
One of the windows is open, and through it I can see a woman seated at a table.
Who acts: One, I · What happens: be, see, seat · To what, where: woman, street, table
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 (One, I), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 open | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 windows | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 windows | det |
| 4 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 open | cop |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 see | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 open | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 16 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 woman | acl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 table | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 table | det |
| 19 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seated | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | One of the windows | open property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | can | I | a woman | street | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | seat | participle | a woman not said here | a table | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
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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