The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 51

He had been to visit his friend the Cornish ogre, and had stayed with him for seven years.

Who acts: Giant · What happens: have, be, stay

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 visit	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 visit	mark
5	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friend	nmod:poss
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visit	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ogre	det
9	Cornish	Cornish	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 ogre	compound
10	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visit	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stayed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stayed	cc
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stayed	aux
14	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 had	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stayed	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 years	case
18	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 years	nummod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stayed	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Giant			tree rules
2	is	participle	Giant not said here		visit property	tree rules
3	stay	past · perfect	Giant not said here	year	with Giant	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=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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