The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 49
Then they melted the statue in a furnace, and the Mayor held a meeting of the Corporation to decide what was to be done with the metal.
Who acts: boys, Mayor · What happens: melt, hold, decide, do · To what, where: statue, furnace, meeting · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boys, Mayor), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 melted | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 melted | nsubj |
| 3 | melted | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 statue | det |
| 5 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 melted | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 furnace | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 furnace | det |
| 8 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 melted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 held | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Mayor | det |
| 12 | Mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 held | nsubj |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 melted | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 meeting | det |
| 15 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Corporation | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Corporation | det |
| 18 | Corporation | Corporation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 meeting | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 decide | mark |
| 20 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 held | advcl |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 done | obj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 done | aux:pass |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 done | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 done | aux:pass |
| 25 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 decide | ccomp |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 metal | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 metal | det |
| 28 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 done | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 melted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | past | boys = boy | the statue | a furnace | then | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient statue=Result | ||
| 2 | hold | past | the Mayor | a meeting of the Corporation | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=Theme | ||||
| 3 | decide | to-infinitive | the Mayor not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | past · passive | with the metal | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
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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