The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 27

He picked up crumbs outside the baker’s door when the baker was not looking and tried to keep himself warm by flapping his wings.

Who acts: snow, baker · What happens: pick up, not look, try, keep, flap · To what, where: crumbs, snow, wings

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 (snow, baker), 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 picked	nsubj
2	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 picked	compound:prt
4	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 picked	obj
5	outside	outside	ADP	_	9 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 baker	det
7	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 door	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 baker	case
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obl
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 looking	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 baker	det
12	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looking	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 looking	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 looking	advmod
15	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 picked	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tried	cc
17	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 keep	mark
19	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 tried	xcomp
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 keep	obj
21	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 keep	xcomp
22	by	by	SCONJ	_	23 flapping	mark
23	flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 keep	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wings	nmod:poss
25	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 flapping	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	snow	crumbs	outside the baker's door	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Topic
2	not look	past · progressive	the baker			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	try	past	snow not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	snow not said here	snow	warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	flap	gerund	snow not said here	snow's wings		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient

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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