The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 61
From her nest in the holm-oak tree the Nightingale heard him, and she looked out through the leaves, and wondered.
Who acts: Nightingale, better · What happens: hear, look out, wonder · To what, where: Student, nest, leaves
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 (Nightingale, better), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 nest | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 nest | nmod:poss |
| 3 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 6 | holm | holm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 oak | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 holm | punct |
| 8 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nest | nmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Nightingale | det |
| 11 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 looked | compound:prt |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 leaves | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 leaves | det |
| 21 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 looked | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wondered | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wondered | cc |
| 24 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Nightingale | Student | better's nest in the oak tree | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Topic from nest=Source | |||
| 2 | look out | past | better = good | the leaves | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | the Nightingale not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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