The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 85

It was really only a little linnet singing outside his window, but it was so long since he had heard a bird sing in his garden that it seemed to him to be the most beautiful music in the world.

Who acts: music, little linnet, tree, it · What happens: be, sing, hear, seem · To what, where: little linnet, window, bird sing, garden, tree, beautiful music · 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, little linnet, tree, it), 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	7 linnet	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 linnet	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	7 linnet	advmod
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 linnet	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 linnet	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 linnet	amod
7	linnet	linnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 linnet	acl
9	outside	outside	ADP	_	11 window	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 window	nmod:poss
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 singing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 long	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 long	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 long	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 long	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 long	advmod
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 linnet	advmod
18	since	since	SCONJ	_	21 heard	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	aux
21	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 long	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sing	det
23	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sing	compound
24	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 garden	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 garden	nmod:poss
27	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 seemed	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 seemed	nsubj
30	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	ccomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 seemed	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	38 music	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 music	cop
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 music	det
36	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	37 beautiful	advmod
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 music	amod
38	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seemed	xcomp
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 world	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 world	det
41	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 music	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 linnet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	music	a little linnet				tree rules
2	sing speech: express	gerund	a little linnet not said here			tree's window		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside window=Location
3	is	past	music				long property	tree rules
4	hear	past · perfect	tree	a bird sing		tree's garden		tree rules
5	seem	past	it		tree			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	is a	to-infinitive		the beautiful music		the world		tree rules

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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