The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 128
When she had finished her song the Student got up, and pulled a note-book and a lead-pencil out of his pocket.
Who acts: love, Student · What happens: finish, get up, pull, sing · To what, where: song, note book, pocket
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love, Student), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 got | advcl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 song | nmod:poss |
| 6 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finished | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Student | det |
| 8 | Student | Student | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 got | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pulled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pulled | cc |
| 13 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 book | det |
| 15 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 book | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 note | punct |
| 17 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pulled | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pencil | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pencil | det |
| 20 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pencil | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 lead | punct |
| 22 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 book | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 pocket | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 pocket | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 26 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pulled | obl | ||
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | love | love's song | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector song=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | get up | past | the Student | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | pull | past | the Student not said here | a note book and a lead pencil | Student's pocket | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent book=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | sing | love | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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