The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 10
He always coughed before he made any observation, so as to attract attention.
Who acts: Candle · What happens: cough, make, attract · To what, where: observation, attention
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Candle), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 coughed | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 coughed | advmod |
| 3 | coughed | cough | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 made | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 coughed | ccomp |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 observation | det |
| 8 | observation | observation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 attract | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 attract | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 attract | mark |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 attract | mark |
| 13 | attract | attract | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 coughed | advcl |
| 14 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 attract | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 coughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cough | past | Candle | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Candle | any observation | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent observation=Product | ||||
| 3 | attract | to-infinitive | Candle not said here | attention | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
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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