The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 114

He visited all the public monuments, and sat a long time on top of the church steeple.

Who acts: Swallow · What happens: visit, sit · To what, where: public monuments, top

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 visited	nsubj
2	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 monuments	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monuments	det
5	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 monuments	amod
6	monuments	monument	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 visited	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sat	cc
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 visited	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 top	case
14	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 steeple	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 steeple	det
17	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 steeple	compound
18	steeple	steeple	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 top	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 visited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	past	Swallow	all public monuments					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monument=Co-Agent
2	sit	past	Swallow not said here			top of the church steeple	time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=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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