The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 19
The white Moon heard it, and she forgot the dawn, and lingered on in the sky.
Who acts: white Moon, Moon · What happens: hear, forget, linger · To what, where: burst, sky
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 (white Moon, Moon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Moon | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Moon | amod |
| 3 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 forgot | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 forgot | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 forgot | nsubj |
| 9 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dawn | det |
| 11 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forgot | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lingered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lingered | cc |
| 14 | lingered | linger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 sky | case |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sky | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sky | det |
| 18 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lingered | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the white Moon | burst | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | Moon | dawn | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | linger | participle | the white Moon not said here | the sky | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sky=Location |
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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