The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 84
It sounded so sweet to his ears that he thought it must be the King’s musicians passing by.
Who acts: music, tree, musicians · What happens: sound, think, be, pass by · To what, where: musicians · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (music, tree, musicians), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sounded | nsubj |
| 2 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 sweet | advmod |
| 4 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sounded | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ears | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ears | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sweet | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 thought | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sweet | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 musicians | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 musicians | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 musicians | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 musicians | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 King | case |
| 17 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 musicians | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 passing | fixed |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | music | sweet property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | tree | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | must | music | the King's musicians | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pass by | gerund | the King's musicians not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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