The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 16

Under the archway of a bridge two little boys were lying in one another’s arms to try and keep themselves warm.

Who acts: two little boys · What happens: lie, try, keep · To what, where: arms, archway

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 (two little boys), 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	Under	under	ADP	_	3 archway	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 archway	det
3	archway	archway	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lying	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bridge	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bridge	det
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 archway	nmod
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 boys	nummod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boys	amod
9	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lying	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lying	aux
11	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 one	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 lying	obl
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 arms	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 another	case
16	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lying	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 try	mark
18	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lying	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 keep	cc
20	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 try	conj
21	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 keep	obj
22	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 keep	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	two little boys	another's arms	the archway of a bridge	in one	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arm=Theme
2	try	to-infinitive	two little boys not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	keep	infinitive	two little boys not said here	arms = arm		warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme

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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