The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 95
It was the farthest corner of the garden, and in it was standing a little boy.
Who acts: grass · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: farthest corner, little boy
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 (grass), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 corner | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 corner | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 corner | det |
| 4 | farthest | far | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 corner | amod |
| 5 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 corner | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 standing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 standing | cc |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 14 standing | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 standing | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 standing | aux |
| 14 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 corner | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 boy | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 boy | amod |
| 17 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 standing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 corner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | grass | the farthest corner | of the garden | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | grass | a little boy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus |
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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