The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 24
And at noon the Student opened his window and looked out.
Who acts: Student · What happens: open, look out · To what, where: window
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 (Student), 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 | _ | 6 opened | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 noon | case |
| 3 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Student | det |
| 5 | Student | Student | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | nsubj |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 window | nmod:poss |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 opened | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 looked | compound:prt |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the Student | Student's window | noon | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme | |||
| 2 | look out | past | the Student not said here | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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