The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 47

“I have a golden bedroom,” he said softly to himself as he looked round, and he prepared to go to sleep; but just as he was putting his head under his wing a large drop of water fell on him.

Who acts: wind, large drop · What happens: have, say, look round, prepare, go, put · To what, where: golden bedroom, wind, sleep, head, wing · Speech: someone speaks here

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, large drop), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bedroom	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bedroom	amod
6	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	softly	softly	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 said	obl
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 looked	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
17	round	round	ADV	_	16 looked	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 prepared	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 prepared	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 prepared	nsubj
21	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 looked	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 go	mark
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 prepared	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 sleep	case
25	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 putting	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 putting	cc
28	just	just	ADV	_	32 putting	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 putting	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 putting	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 putting	aux
32	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 head	nmod:poss
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 putting	obj
35	under	under	ADP	_	37 wing	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 wing	nmod:poss
37	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 putting	obl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 drop	det
39	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 drop	amod
40	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fell	nsubj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 water	case
42	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 drop	nmod
43	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 putting	parataxis
44	on	on	ADP	_	45 him	case
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 fell	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	wind	a golden bedroom				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bedroom=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	wind		wind		softly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	look round	past	wind				round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	prepare	past	wind					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	wind not said here			sleep		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
6	put	past · progressive	wind	wind's head		wind's wing		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme under wing=Destination
7	fall	past	a large drop of water				on wind	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=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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