The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 26

One night there flew over the city a little Swallow.

What happens: fly · To what, where: little Swallow, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 night	nummod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl:unmarked
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 flew	advmod
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 city	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Swallow	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Swallow	amod
10	Swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past		a little Swallow		the city; there	night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent swallow=Theme over city=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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