The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 50
“‘Who is there?’ cried the Doctor, putting his head out of his bedroom window.
What happens: cry, put · To what, where: Doctor, head, bedroom window
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: 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 | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 3 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 is | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | aux:pass |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Doctor | det |
| 10 | Doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 putting | punct |
| 12 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cried | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 putting | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 window | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 window | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 window | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 window | compound |
| 19 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 putting | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | present · passive | the Doctor | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: doctor=Topic | |||||
| 2 | put in a quote | gerund | Hans's head | Hans's bedroom window | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme out window=Destination |
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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