The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 15
As soon as there was perfect silence, the Rocket coughed a third time and began.
Who acts: Rocket · What happens: be, cough, begin · To what, where: perfect silence
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 (Rocket), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 silence | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 was | mark |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 silence | cop |
| 6 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 silence | amod |
| 7 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coughed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 silence | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Rocket | det |
| 10 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coughed | nsubj |
| 11 | coughed | cough | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coughed | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 coughed | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 coughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | perfect silence | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cough | past | the Rocket | time | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the Rocket not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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