The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 62
Then he began to feel a curious tingling sensation all over him.
Who acts: fire · What happens: begin, feel · To what, where: curious tingling sensation
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 (fire), 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 | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 feel | mark |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sensation | det |
| 7 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sensation | amod |
| 8 | tingling | tingling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sensation | compound |
| 9 | sensation | sensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feel | obj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 him | advmod |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 feel | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | fire | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | feel | to-infinitive | fire not said here | a curious tingling sensation | over fire | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sensation=Theme over he=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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