The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 90
Then the moon rose like a wonderful silver shield; and the stars began to shine, and a sound of music came from the palace.
Who acts: moon, stars, sound · What happens: rise, begin, shine, come · To what, where: palace
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, stars, sound), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moon | det |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 shield | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shield | det |
| 7 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shield | amod |
| 8 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shield | compound |
| 9 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stars | det |
| 13 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 began | nsubj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 shine | mark |
| 16 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sound | det |
| 20 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 music | case |
| 22 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sound | nmod |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 began | advcl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 palace | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 palace | det |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the moon | then | like a wonderful silver shield | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the stars | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | shine | to-infinitive | the stars not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past | a sound of music | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from palace=Initial_Location |
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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