The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 36
But a second rap came, and then a third, louder than any of the others.
Who acts: second rap · What happens: come · To what, where: third
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 (second 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rap | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 rap | amod |
| 4 | rap | rap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 third | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 third | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 third | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 third | det |
| 10 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 louder | punct |
| 12 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 third | conj |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 any | case |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 louder | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 others | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 others | det |
| 17 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 any | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a second rap | a third | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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