The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 60
In the daytime I played with my companions in the garden, and in the evening I led the dance in the Great Hall.
Who acts: I · What happens: play, lead · To what, where: daytime, dance, Great Hall
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 (I), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 daytime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 daytime | det |
| 3 | daytime | daytime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 played | nsubj |
| 5 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 companions | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 companions | nmod:poss |
| 8 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 played | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 garden | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 garden | det |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 led | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 led | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 evening | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 evening | det |
| 16 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | obl |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 led | nsubj |
| 18 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 played | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dance | det |
| 20 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Hall | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Hall | det |
| 23 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Hall | amod |
| 24 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 led | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | I | the daytime | with my companions; in the garden | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with companion=Theme | |||
| 2 | lead | past | I | the dance | the Great Hall | evening | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dance=Theme in hall=Destination |
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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