The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 86

Then the Hail stopped dancing over his head, and the North Wind ceased roaring, and a delicious perfume came to him through the open casement.

Who acts: Hail, North Wind, delicious perfume · What happens: stop, dance, cease, roar, come · To what, where: head, tree, open casement

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 (Hail, North Wind, delicious perfume), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stopped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hail	det
3	Hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stopped	xcomp
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dancing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ceased	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ceased	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Wind	det
12	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Wind	compound
13	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 ceased	nsubj
14	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	conj
15	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 ceased	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 perfume	det
19	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 perfume	amod
20	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	obl
24	through	through	ADP	_	27 casement	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 casement	det
26	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 casement	amod
27	casement	casement	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	stop	past	the Hail			then	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	dance	gerund	the Hail not said here		tree's head		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Location
3	cease	past	the North Wind				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	roar	gerund	the North Wind not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	a delicious perfume	tree	the open casement		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location through casement=Destination

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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