The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 35

It was a very wild night, and the wind was blowing and roaring round the house so terribly that at first he thought it was merely the storm.

Who acts: rap, wind · What happens: be, blow, roar, think · To what, where: wild night, house, storm · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (rap, wind), 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	6 night	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 night	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 night	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 wild	advmod
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 blowing	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 blowing	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wind	det
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blowing	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 blowing	aux
12	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 night	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 roaring	cc
14	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 blowing	conj
15	round	round	ADP	_	17 house	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 house	det
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 roaring	obl
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 terribly	advmod
19	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	12 blowing	advmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 thought	mark
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 first	case
22	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 thought	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 blowing	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 storm	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 storm	cop
27	merely	merely	ADV	_	29 storm	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 storm	det
29	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thought	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 night	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	rap	a wild night			tree rules
2	blow	past · progressive	the wind			terribly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	roar	gerund	the wind not said here		the house		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round house=Trajectory
4	think speech: other	past	wind				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	rap	the storm		merely property	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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