The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 27
His friends had gone away to Egypt six weeks before, but he had stayed behind, for he was in love with the most beautiful Reed.
Who acts: friends, Friend · What happens: go away, stay, be · To what, where: Egypt
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 (friends, Friend), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friends | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 gone | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Egypt | case |
| 7 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obl |
| 8 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 weeks | nummod |
| 9 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 before | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 gone | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stayed | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 stayed | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stayed | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stayed | aux |
| 15 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 gone | conj |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 15 stayed | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 love | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 love | case |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 love | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 love | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 love | case |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stayed | parataxis |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 Reed | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Reed | det |
| 25 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 26 beautiful | advmod |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Reed | amod |
| 27 | Reed | reed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 love | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past · perfect | Master's friends | Egypt | away, before property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to egypt=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stay | past · perfect | Friend | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Friend | for love; with the beautiful Reed | tree rules |
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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