The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 16
HIGH above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince.
What happens: stand · To what, where: statue, city
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 | HIGH | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 above | advmod |
| 2 | above | above | ADP | _ | 4 city | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 city | det |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 column | punct |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 column | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 column | det |
| 8 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 column | amod |
| 9 | column | column | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 city | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 city | punct |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 statue | det |
| 13 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Prince | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Prince | det |
| 16 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Prince | amod |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 statue | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the statue of the Happy Prince | the city and a tall column | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent statue=Theme above city=Destination |
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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