The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 96
He passed over the river, and saw the lanterns hanging to the masts of the ships.
Who acts: Swallow, lanterns · What happens: pass, see, hang · To what, where: river, lanterns
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, lanterns), 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 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 river | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 river | det |
| 5 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lanterns | det |
| 10 | lanterns | lantern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 lanterns | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 masts | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 masts | det |
| 14 | masts | mast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hanging | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ships | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ships | det |
| 17 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 masts | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Swallow | the river | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over river=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Swallow not said here | the lanterns | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lantern=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hang | gerund | the lanterns not said here | to the masts of the ships | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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