The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 56

So they threw it on a dust-heap where the dead Swallow was also lying.

Who acts: icicles, dead Swallow · What happens: throw, lie · To what, where: heart, dust heap

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 (icicles, dead Swallow), 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	_	3 threw	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 heap	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 heap	det
7	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heap	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 dust	punct
9	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 lying	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Swallow	det
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Swallow	amod
13	Swallow	Swallow	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 lying	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lying	aux
15	also	also	ADV	_	16 lying	advmod
16	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 heap	acl:relcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	icicles = icicle	heart		a dust heap			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on heap=Destination
2	lie	past · progressive	the dead Swallow						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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