The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 70
But nobody heard him, not even the two little boys, for they were sound asleep.
Who acts: nobody, boys · What happens: hear, be · To what, where: noise
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 (nobody, boys), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 heard | cc |
| 2 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 boys | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 boys | advmod |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 boys | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boys | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 boys | nummod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boys | amod |
| 11 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heard | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 asleep | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 asleep | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asleep | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 asleep | cop |
| 16 | sound | sound | ADV | _ | 17 asleep | advmod |
| 17 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | nobody | noise | the two little boys obl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | boys = boy | asleep, sound property | tree rules |
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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