The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 52
The Rocket was very damp, so he took a long time to burn.
Who acts: Rocket · What happens: be, take, burn
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 7. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rocket | det |
| 2 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 damp | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 damp | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 damp | advmod |
| 5 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 took | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 damp | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 burn | mark |
| 14 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 time | acl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 damp | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Rocket | damp property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Rocket | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | burn | to-infinitive | Rocket not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP 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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