The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 116
So he jumped off the ladder, and ran down the garden, and looked over the wall.
Who acts: friend · What happens: jump off, run down, look · To what, where: ladder, garden
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 ladder | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ladder | det |
| 6 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ran | cc |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 ran | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 garden | det |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 wall | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wall | det |
| 18 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump off | past | friend | the ladder | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ladder=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | run down | past | friend not said here | the garden | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme garden=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | look | past | friend not said here | over the wall | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over wall=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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