The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 46
And the Town Clerk made a note of the suggestion.
Who acts: Town Clerk · What happens: make, note · To what, where: note, suggestion
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 (Town Clerk), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 made | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Clerk | det |
| 3 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Clerk | compound |
| 4 | Clerk | Clerk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 note | det |
| 7 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 suggestion | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 suggestion | det |
| 10 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 note | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Town Clerk | a note of the suggestion | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Product | ||||
| 2 | note | the suggestion | nom note «communication transitive»: of=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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