The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 73
He was wrapped in furs, and he roared all day about the garden, and blew the chimney-pots down.
Who acts: Frost · What happens: wrap, roar, blow · To what, where: Frost, furs, chimney pots
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 (Frost), 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 | 3 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 3 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 furs | case |
| 5 | furs | fur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wrapped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 roared | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 roared | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 roared | nsubj |
| 9 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrapped | parataxis |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roared | obj |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 garden | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 garden | det |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 day | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 blew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 blew | cc |
| 17 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 roared | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pots | det |
| 19 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pots | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 chimney | punct |
| 21 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 blew | obj |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 blew | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | past · passive | Frost | furs | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in fur=Destination | ||||
| 2 | roar | past | Frost | day | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 3 | blow | past | Frost not said here | the chimney pots | down property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent pot=Patient |
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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