The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 56
So he built a high wall all round it, and put up a notice-board.
Who acts: Giant · What happens: build, put up · To what, where: high wall, notice board
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 built | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 built | nsubj |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wall | det |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wall | amod |
| 6 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obj |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 it | advmod |
| 8 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 built | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 built | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 put | compound:prt |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 board | det |
| 15 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 board | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 notice | punct |
| 17 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | Giant | a high wall | round wall | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Product | |||
| 2 | put up | participle | Giant not said here | a notice board | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent board=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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