The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 9
All the next day he sat on the Prince’s shoulder, and told him stories of what he had seen in strange lands.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: sit, tell, see · To what, where: shoulder, stories, Prince, strange lands · 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 (Prince), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 day | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 shoulder | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Prince | case |
| 11 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sat | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | iobj |
| 16 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 told | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 what | case |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 stories | nmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 lands | case |
| 23 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lands | amod |
| 24 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 seen | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Prince | the Prince's shoulder | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Prince not said here | stories | Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | Prince | strange lands | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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