The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 96
He was so small that he could not reach up to the branches of the tree, and he was wandering all round it, crying bitterly.
Who acts: tree · What happens: be, not reach up, wonder, cry
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 (tree), 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 | 4 small | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 small | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 small | advmod |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 reach | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 reach | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 reach | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 reach | advmod |
| 9 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 small | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 reach | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 branches | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 branches | det |
| 13 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 reach | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 branches | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wandering | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wandering | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wandering | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 wandering | aux |
| 21 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 small | parataxis |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 it | advmod |
| 23 | round | round | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wandering | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 crying | punct |
| 26 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 wandering | conj |
| 27 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 26 crying | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | tree | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not reach up | could | tree | to the branches of the tree | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | tree | round grass | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | tree not said here | bitterly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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