The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 106
And the Giant stole up behind him and took him gently in his hand, and put him up into the tree.
Who acts: Giant · What happens: steal up, take, put up · To what, where: tree, hand
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giant), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 stole | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Giant | det |
| 3 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stole | nsubj |
| 4 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 stole | compound:prt |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stole | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stole | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 9 took | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 put | cc |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 took | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 put | compound:prt |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal up | past | the Giant | behind tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the Giant not said here | tree | tree's hand | gently property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in hand=Location | ||
| 3 | put up | infinitive | the Giant not said here | tree | the tree | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
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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