The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 140
ONE morning the old Water-rat put his head out of his hole.
Who acts: old Water rat · What happens: put · To what, where: head, hole
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Water rat), 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 | ONE | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rat | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rat | amod |
| 5 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rat | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Water | punct |
| 7 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | nsubj |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 hole | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hole | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hole | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the old Water rat | rat's head | rat's hole | morning | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme out hole=Destination |
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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