The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 146

He sat on the mast of a large vessel and watched the sailors hauling big chests out of the hold with ropes.

Who acts: Swallow, sailors · What happens: sit, watch, haul · To what, where: mast, sailors, big chests, hold

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, sailors), 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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 mast	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mast	det
5	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 vessel	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 vessel	det
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 vessel	amod
9	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mast	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 watched	cc
11	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sailors	det
13	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 watched	obj
14	hauling	haul	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 sailors	acl
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 chests	amod
16	chests	chest	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hauling	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 hold	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 hold	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hold	det
20	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hauling	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 ropes	case
22	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hold	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past	Swallow		the mast of a large vessel	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mast=Location
2	watch	past	Swallow not said here	the sailors		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sailor=Theme
3	haul	gerund	the sailors not said here	big chests	the hold with ropes	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent chest=Theme out hold=Initial_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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