The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 8
Suddenly, a sharp, dry cough was heard, and they all looked round.
Who acts: people · What happens: hear, look round · To what, where: sharp dry cough
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 (people), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 9 heard | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suddenly | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cough | det |
| 4 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cough | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sharp | punct |
| 6 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cough | amod |
| 7 | cough | cough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux:pass |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looked | nsubj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 looked | advmod |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | parataxis |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 14 looked | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | a sharp dry cough | suddenly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look round | past | people | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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