The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 9
It came from a tall, supercilious-looking Rocket, who was tied to the end of a long stick.
Who acts: cough · What happens: come, look, tie · To what, where: tall looking Rocket
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 (cough), 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 | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Rocket | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Rocket | det |
| 5 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Rocket | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tall | punct |
| 7 | supercilious | supercilious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looking | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 supercilious | punct |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Rocket | amod |
| 10 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tied | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tied | aux:pass |
| 14 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Rocket | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 end | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 end | det |
| 17 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tied | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 stick | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 stick | det |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stick | amod |
| 21 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 end | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | cough | a tall looking Rocket | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from rocket=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | tie | past · passive | a tall looking Rocket | to the end of a long stick | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to end=Co-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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