The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 136
And he went into his room, and lay down on his little pallet-bed, and began to think of his love; and, after a time, he fell asleep.
Who acts: Death · What happens: go, lay down, begin, think, fall, love · To what, where: room, little pallet bed
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Death), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 room | nmod:poss |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lay | cc |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 lay | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 bed | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bed | nmod:poss |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bed | amod |
| 14 | pallet | pallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bed | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 pallet | punct |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 think | mark |
| 21 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 began | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 love | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 love | nmod:poss |
| 24 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 think | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 fell | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 fell | cc |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 and | punct |
| 28 | after | after | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 time | det |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fell | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 time | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 fell | nsubj |
| 33 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 34 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 fell | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Death | Death's room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | Death not said here | Death's little pallet bed | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bed=Destination | |||
| 3 | begin | past | Death not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Death not said here | of Death's love | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | Death | time | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | love | Death | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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