The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 115

Wherever he went the Sparrows chirruped, and said to each other, “What a distinguished stranger!” so he enjoyed himself very much.

Who acts: Swallow, Sparrows · What happens: go, chirrup, say, enjoy · To what, where: each, Swallow · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Sparrows), 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	Wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chirruped	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sparrows	det
5	Sparrows	Sparrow	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 chirruped	nsubj
6	chirruped	chirrup	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chirruped	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 each	case
11	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	9 said	obl
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 each	fixed
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stranger	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 stranger	punct
15	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	18 stranger	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stranger	det
17	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stranger	amod
18	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 stranger	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 stranger	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 enjoyed	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 enjoyed	nsubj
23	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chirruped	advcl
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 enjoyed	obj
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADV	_	23 enjoyed	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 chirruped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	Swallow			wherever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chirrup	past	the Sparrows				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the Sparrows not said here		each		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
4	enjoy	past	Swallow	Swallow			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus

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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