The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 85

“Last summer, when I was staying on the river, there were two rude boys, the miller’s sons, who were always throwing stones at me.

Who acts: Last summer, two rude boys, sons · What happens: stay, be, throw · To what, where: river, stones

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 (Last summer, two rude boys, sons), 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	_	3 summer	punct
2	Last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 summer	amod
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 staying	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 summer	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 staying	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 staying	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 staying	aux
8	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 staying	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 were	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 were	expl
14	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 staying	parataxis
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 boys	nummod
16	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 boys	amod
17	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 were	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sons	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 miller	det
20	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sons	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 miller	case
22	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 boys	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 throwing	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 throwing	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 throwing	aux
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 throwing	advmod
27	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 sons	acl
28	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 throwing	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 throwing	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 staying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stay in a quote	past · progressive	Last summer		the river		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on river=Location
2	be in a quote	past	two rude boys		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	throw in a quote	past · progressive	the miller's sons	stones		at the Swallow = swallow; always property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at i=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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