The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 121
The river-horse couches there among the bulrushes, and on a great granite throne sits the God Memnon.
What happens: sit · To what, where: God Memnon, great granite throne
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 couches | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horse | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 river | punct |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 couches | compound |
| 5 | couches | couch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 there | nsubj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 bulrushes | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bulrushes | det |
| 9 | bulrushes | bulrush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 there | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sits | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sits | cc |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 throne | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 throne | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 throne | amod |
| 15 | granite | granite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 throne | compound |
| 16 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sits | obl |
| 17 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Memnon | det |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Memnon | compound |
| 20 | Memnon | Memnon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sits | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | the God Memnon | a great granite throne | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent memnon=Theme on throne=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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