The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 28

He had met her early in the spring as he was flying down the river after a big yellow moth, and had been so attracted by her slender waist that he had stopped to talk to her.

Who acts: Friend, slender waist · What happens: meet, fly, attract, stop, talk · To what, where: Egypt, river, slender waist

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 (Friend, slender waist), 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	3 met	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 met	aux
3	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 met	obj
5	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 met	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 spring	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spring	det
8	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 met	obl
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 flying	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 flying	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 flying	aux
12	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 met	advcl
13	down	down	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flying	obl
16	after	after	ADP	_	20 moth	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 moth	det
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 moth	amod
19	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 moth	amod
20	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flying	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 attracted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 attracted	cc
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 attracted	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 attracted	aux:pass
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 attracted	advmod
26	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 met	advcl
27	by	by	ADP	_	30 waist	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 waist	nmod:poss
29	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 waist	amod
30	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 attracted	obl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 stopped	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stopped	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 stopped	aux
34	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 waist	acl:relcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 talk	mark
36	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 stopped	xcomp
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 talk	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past · perfect	Friend	Egypt			spring	early property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
2	fly	past · progressive	Friend			the river	after a big yellow moth		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down river=Trajectory
3	attract	past · perfect · passive	Egypt's slender waist						vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	stop	past · perfect	Friend	Egypt's slender waist not said here					tree rules
5	talk	to-infinitive	Friend not said here		Egypt				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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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