The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 46
So he alighted just between the feet of the Happy Prince.
Who acts: wind · What happens: alight
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 (wind), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 alighted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 alighted | nsubj |
| 3 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 feet | advmod |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 feet | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 feet | det |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 alighted | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Prince | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 10 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Prince | amod |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 feet | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 alighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alight | participle | wind | between the feet of the Happy Prince | 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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