The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 29

The daughter of the Professor was sitting in the doorway winding blue silk on a reel, and her little dog was lying at her feet.

Who acts: daughter, little dog · What happens: sit, wind, lie · To what, where: doorway, blue silk, reel, feet

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 (daughter, little dog), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 daughter	det
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Professor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Professor	det
5	Professor	Professor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 daughter	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sitting	aux
7	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 doorway	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 doorway	det
10	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl
11	winding	wind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sitting	conj
12	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 silk	amod
13	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 winding	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 reel	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 reel	det
16	reel	reel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 winding	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lying	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lying	cc
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 dog	nmod:poss
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dog	amod
21	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lying	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lying	aux
23	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sitting	advcl
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 feet	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 feet	nmod:poss
26	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lying	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the daughter of the Professor		the doorway	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location
2	wind	gerund	the daughter of the Professor not said here	blue silk	a reel	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent silk=Theme
3	lie	past · progressive	Professor's little dog		Professor's feet	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location

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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