The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 87
“I believe the Spring has come at last,” said the Giant; and he jumped out of bed and looked out.
Who acts: I, Spring, tree · What happens: believe, come, say, jump out, look out · To what, where: last, Giant, bed · 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 (I, Spring, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Spring | det |
| 5 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 believe | ccomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 come | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Giant | det |
| 14 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 jumped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 jumped | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 jumped | nsubj |
| 18 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 bed | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 bed | case |
| 21 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 jumped | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 looked | cc |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 jumped | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 looked | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe in a quote | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present · perfect | the Spring | last | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Giant | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | jump out | past | tree | bed | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | look out | past | tree not said here | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: 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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