The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 36
At that moment a curious crack sounded inside the statue, as if something had broken.
Who acts: curious crack · What happens: sound, break · To what, where: statue, something
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 (curious crack), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sounded | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 crack | det |
| 5 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crack | amod |
| 6 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sounded | nsubj |
| 7 | sounded | sound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 10 statue | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 statue | det |
| 10 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sounded | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 broken | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 broken | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 broken | mark |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 broken | aux |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sounded | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | participle | a curious crack | the statue | moment | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside statue=Location | |||
| 2 | break a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | something | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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