The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 142

The young man had his head buried in his hands, so he did not hear the flutter of the bird’s wings, and when he looked up he found the beautiful sapphire lying on the withered violets.

Who acts: young man, man, beautiful sapphire, wings · What happens: have, bury, not hear, look up, find, lie · To what, where: head, hands, flutter, beautiful sapphire, withered violets

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 (young man, man, beautiful sapphire, wings), 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	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 head	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hands	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 buried	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hear	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 hear	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hear	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hear	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 hear	advmod
16	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 flutter	det
18	flutter	flutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hear	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 wings	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bird	det
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wings	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 bird	case
23	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 flutter	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 found	cc
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 looked	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 looked	nsubj
28	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 found	advcl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 looked	compound:prt
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	nsubj
31	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sapphire	det
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sapphire	amod
34	sapphire	sapphire	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	obj
35	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 sapphire	acl
36	on	on	ADP	_	39 violets	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 violets	det
38	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 violets	amod
39	violets	violet	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 lying	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	the young man	man's head		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	bury	participle		man's head not said here	man's hands	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hand=Destination
3	not hear	past · do-support	man	the flutter of the bird's wings		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer flutter=Stimulus
4	look up	past	man			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	find	past	man	the beautiful sapphire		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sapphire=Topic
6	lie	gerund	the beautiful sapphire not said here		the withered violets	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on violet=Location
7	wither	participle				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	flutter		the bird's wings			nom flutter «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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