The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 135
It is so entrancing that everybody lies awake to listen to us.
Who acts: moon, everybody · What happens: entrance, lie, listen · To what, where: us
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 (moon, everybody), 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 | 4 entrancing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 entrancing | aux |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 entrancing | advmod |
| 4 | entrancing | entrance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 lies | mark |
| 6 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 lies | nsubj |
| 7 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 entrancing | advcl |
| 8 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lies | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 listen | mark |
| 10 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 awake | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 us | case |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 listen | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entrancing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entrance | present · progressive | moon | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | lie | present | everybody | awake property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | listen | to-infinitive | everybody not said here | us | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to we=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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