The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 99

The boy was tossing feverishly on his bed, and the mother had fallen asleep, she was so tired.

Who acts: boy, mother · What happens: toss, fall, be · To what, where: bed

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 (boy, mother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tossing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tossing	aux
4	tossing	toss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	feverishly	feverishly	ADV	_	4 tossing	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 bed	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bed	nmod:poss
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tossing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fallen	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fallen	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mother	det
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fallen	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fallen	aux
14	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 tossing	conj
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fallen	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tired	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tired	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tired	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 tired	advmod
20	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fallen	parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tossing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	toss	past · progressive	the boy	Swallow's bed	feverishly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on bed=Destination
2	fall	past · perfect	the mother		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	mother		tired property	tree rules

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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