The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 97
He passed over the Ghetto, and saw the old Jews bargaining with each other, and weighing out money in copper scales.
Who acts: Swallow, old Jews · What happens: pass, see, bargain, weigh out · To what, where: Ghetto, old Jews, money, copper scales
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, old Jews), 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 Ghetto | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Ghetto | det |
| 5 | Ghetto | Ghetto | PROPN | 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 | 11 Jews | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Jews | amod |
| 11 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obj |
| 12 | bargaining | bargain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 Jews | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 each | case |
| 14 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 12 bargaining | obl |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 each | fixed |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 weighing | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 weighing | cc |
| 18 | weighing | weigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 saw | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 weighing | compound:prt |
| 20 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 weighing | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 scales | case |
| 22 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 scales | compound |
| 23 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 weighing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Swallow | the Ghetto | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over ghetto=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Swallow not said here | the old Jews | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jew=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | bargain | gerund | the old Jews not said here | with each | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | weigh out | gerund | Swallow not said here | money | copper scales | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme money=Value |
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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