The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 108
When day broke he flew down to the river and had a bath.
Who acts: Swallow · What happens: break, fly down, have · To what, where: bath
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 broke | advmod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 flew | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 river | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bath | det |
| 13 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | Swallow not said here | day | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fly down | past | Swallow | to the river result; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Swallow not said here | a bath | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Patient |
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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