The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 91
He passed by the cathedral tower, where the white marble angels were sculptured.
Who acts: Swallow · What happens: pass, sculpture · To what, where: white marble angels
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 tower | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tower | det |
| 5 | cathedral | cathedral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tower | compound |
| 6 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sculptured | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 sculptured | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 angels | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 angels | amod |
| 11 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 angels | compound |
| 12 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sculptured | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sculptured | aux:pass |
| 14 | sculptured | sculpture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 tower | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Swallow | by the cathedral tower | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by tower=Location | ||||
| 2 | sculpture | past · passive | the white marble angels | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
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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