The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 62
They tried to play on the road, but the road was very dusty and full of hard stones, and they did not like it.
Who acts: children, road · What happens: try, play, be, not like · To what, where: road
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 (children, road), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 play | mark |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 play | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dusty | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 dusty | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dusty | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dusty | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 dusty | advmod |
| 14 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tried | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 full | cc |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dusty | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 stones | case |
| 18 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stones | amod |
| 19 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 full | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 like | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 like | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 like | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 like | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 like | advmod |
| 25 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 like | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | children = child | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | children = child not said here | the road | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the road | dusty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the road not said here | of hard stones | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not like | past · do-support | children = child | road | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
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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