The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 34
After they had gone he felt lonely, and began to tire of his lady-love.
Who acts: relations, Swallow · What happens: go, feel, begin, love · To what, where: tire
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 (relations, Swallow), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 gone | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 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 | 6 felt | advcl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 felt | nsubj |
| 6 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 felt | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 felt | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 tire | mark |
| 12 | tire | tire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 began | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 love | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 love | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 love | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 lady | punct |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tire | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | relations = relation | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | Swallow | lonely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Swallow not said here | tire of Swallow's lady love | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tire=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | love | Swallow | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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