The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 34
“Now it happened that one evening little Hans was sitting by his fireside when a loud rap came at the door.
Who acts: it, little Hans, loud rap · What happens: happen, sit, come · To what, where: door
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, little Hans, loud rap), 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 | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 happened | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 sitting | mark |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 evening | nummod |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 little | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Hans | amod |
| 9 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sitting | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sitting | aux |
| 11 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 happened | advcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 fireside | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fireside | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fireside | fireside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sitting | obl |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 rap | det |
| 17 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rap | amod |
| 18 | rap | rap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sitting | advcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 door | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit in a quote | past · progressive | little Hans | by Hans's fireside | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fireside=Location | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | a loud rap | the door | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location |
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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