The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 43
So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.
Who acts: nephew · What happens: return, pull out, begin, read · To what, where: great dusty book
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 (nephew), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 room | nmod:poss |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pulled | cc |
| 8 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 returned | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 pulled | compound:prt |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 book | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 book | amod |
| 12 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 book | amod |
| 13 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pulled | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 read | mark |
| 18 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | nephew | to nephew's room result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result | ||||
| 2 | pull out | participle | nephew not said here | a great dusty book | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | nephew not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | read | to-infinitive | nephew not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: 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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