The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 98
Whizz! went the Catherine Wheel, as she spun round and round.
Who acts: Whizz · What happens: go, spin · To what, where: Catherine Wheel
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 (Whizz), 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 | Whizz | whizz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whizz | punct |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Wheel | det |
| 5 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Wheel | compound |
| 6 | Wheel | Wheel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spun | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 spun | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spun | nsubj |
| 10 | spun | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 spun | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 round | cc |
| 13 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 round | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Whizz | the Catherine Wheel | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wheel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spin | past | Whizz | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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