The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 92
He passed by the palace and heard the sound of dancing.
Who acts: Swallow · What happens: pass, hear · To what, where: sound
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 (Swallow), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 palace | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 heard | cc |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sound | det |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 dancing | case |
| 11 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Swallow | by the palace | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by palace=Location | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Swallow not said here | the sound of dancing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=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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