The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 76

Every day for three hours he rattled on the roof of the castle till he broke most of the slates, and then he ran round and round the garden as fast as he could go.

Who acts: Hail · What happens: rattle, break, run, round, go · To what, where: roof, most, garden

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 (Hail), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rattled	obl:unmarked
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 hours	case
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 day	nmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rattled	nsubj
7	rattled	rattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 roof	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 roof	det
10	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rattled	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 castle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 castle	det
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roof	nmod
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 broke	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 broke	nsubj
16	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rattled	advcl
17	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 broke	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 slates	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 slates	det
20	slates	slate	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 most	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ran	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ran	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 ran	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ran	nsubj
25	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rattled	parataxis
26	round	round	ADV	_	25 ran	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 round	cc
28	round	round	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 ran	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 garden	det
30	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 round	obj
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 fast	advmod
32	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 round	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 go	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 go	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 go	aux
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 fast	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rattled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rattle	past	Hail		the roof of the castle	day		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on roof=Location
2	break	past	Hail	most of the slates				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer most=Patient
3	run	past	Hail			then	round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	round	infinitive	Hail not said here	the garden			fast property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent garden=Patient
5	go	could	Hail					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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