The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 100
In he hopped, and laid the great ruby on the table beside the woman’s thimble.
Who acts: Swallow · What happens: hop, lay · To what, where: great ruby, table
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Swallow), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 3 hopped | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hopped | nsubj |
| 3 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 laid | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 laid | cc |
| 6 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hopped | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ruby | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ruby | amod |
| 9 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laid | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 table | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 table | det |
| 12 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laid | obl |
| 13 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 17 thimble | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thimble | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 woman | case |
| 17 | thimble | thimble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laid | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop | past | Swallow | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lay | past | Swallow not said here | the great ruby | the table | beside the woman's thimble | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ruby=Theme on table=Destination |
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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