The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 90

In the centre of the grass-plot was standing a beautiful Rose-tree, and when she saw it she flew over to it, and lit upon a spray.

Who acts: centre · What happens: stand, see, fly over, lit · To what, where: beautiful Rose tree, tree

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 (centre), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 centre	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 centre	det
3	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 standing	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 plot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 plot	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plot	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 grass	punct
8	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 centre	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 standing	aux
10	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tree	det
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tree	amod
13	Rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Rose	punct
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 standing	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 flew	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 saw	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 flew	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	obj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 flew	nsubj
23	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 standing	conj
24	over	over	ADV	_	23 flew	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 flew	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lit	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lit	cc
29	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 flew	conj
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 spray	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 spray	det
32	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lit	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	the centre of the grass plot	a beautiful Rose tree			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
2	see	past	centre	tree			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	fly over	past	centre		tree	over property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination
4	lit	participle	centre not said here			upon a spray	tree rules

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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