The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 90
Through a little hole in the wall the children had crept in, and they were sitting in the branches of the trees.
Who acts: children · What happens: creep in, sit · To what, where: children, little hole, branches
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), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 4 hole | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hole | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hole | amod |
| 4 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crept | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wall | det |
| 7 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hole | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 children | det |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 crept | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 crept | aux |
| 11 | crept | creep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 crept | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sitting | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sitting | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sitting | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sitting | aux |
| 17 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 crept | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 branches | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 branches | det |
| 20 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sitting | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 trees | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trees | det |
| 23 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 branches | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep in | past · perfect · passive | the children | a little hole in the wall | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | children = child | the branches of the trees | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in branch=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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