The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 83

One morning the Giant was lying awake in bed when he heard some lovely music.

Who acts: tree · What happens: lie, hear · To what, where: bed, lovely music

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 (tree), 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	6 lying	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Giant	det
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lying	aux
6	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lying	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lying	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 heard	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lying	advcl
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 music	det
14	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 music	amod
15	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive				bed	morning	awake property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
2	hear	past	tree	some lovely music					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus

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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