The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 115
“The next day he was nailing up some honeysuckle against the porch, when he heard the Miller’s voice calling to him from the road.
Who acts: friend, voice · What happens: nail up, hear, call · To what, where: honeysuckle, voice, friend, road · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, voice), 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 | _ | 7 nailing | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nailing | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 nailing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 nailing | aux |
| 7 | nailing | nail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 nailing | compound:prt |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 honeysuckle | det |
| 10 | honeysuckle | honeysuckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nailing | obj |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 porch | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 porch | det |
| 13 | porch | porch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 honeysuckle | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 heard | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 nailing | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Miller | det |
| 19 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 voice | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Miller | case |
| 21 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | obj |
| 22 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 heard | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 calling | obl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 road | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 road | det |
| 27 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 calling | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 nailing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nail up in a quote | past · progressive | friend | some honeysuckle | day | against the porch | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honeysuckle=Patient | ||
| 2 | hear in a quote | past | friend | the Miller's voice | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call in a quote | gerund | the Miller's voice not said here | friend | the road | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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