The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 107

Thinking always made him sleepy.

Who acts: Thinking · What happens: think, make · To what, where: Swallow

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 (Thinking), 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	Thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 made	csubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	1 Thinking	advmod
3	made	make	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 made	obj
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund						always property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	Thinking	Swallow				sleepy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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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