The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 14
So the Swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates.
Who acts: Swallow, beggars · What happens: fly, see, make, sit · To what, where: great city, gates
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 (Swallow, beggars), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Swallow | det |
| 3 | Swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 city | amod |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rich | det |
| 13 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 saw | xcomp |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 rich | advcl |
| 15 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 making | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 houses | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 houses | nmod:poss |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 houses | amod |
| 19 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 merry | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sitting | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 sitting | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 beggars | det |
| 23 | beggars | beggar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sitting | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sitting | aux |
| 25 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 saw | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 gates | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 gates | det |
| 28 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sitting | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the Swallow | the great city | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over city=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the Swallow not said here | rich property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | the Swallow not said here | merry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | sit | past · progressive | the beggars | the gates | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at gate=Location |
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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