The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 21

Echo bore it to her purple cavern in the hills, and woke the sleeping shepherds from their dreams.

Who acts: Echo, shepherds · What happens: bear, wake, dream · To what, where: burst, sleeping shepherds, dreams

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 (Echo, shepherds), 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	Echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bore	nsubj
2	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bore	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 cavern	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cavern	nmod:poss
6	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cavern	amod
7	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bore	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hills	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hills	det
10	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cavern	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 woke	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 woke	cc
13	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bore	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shepherds	det
15	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shepherds	compound
16	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 woke	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 dreams	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dreams	nmod:poss
19	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 woke	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	past	Echo	burst		to Echo's purple cavern in the hills	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	wake	past	Echo not said here	the sleeping shepherds	shepherds's dreams		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shepherd=Patient
3	dream		shepherds = shepherd				nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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