The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 123

“It was a very hot day, and the road was terribly dusty, and before Hans had reached the sixth milestone he was so tired that he had to sit down and rest.

Who acts: cap, road, Hans · What happens: be, reach, have, sit down, rest · To what, where: hot day, sixth milestone

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 (cap, road, Hans), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 day	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 day	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 hot	advmod
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dusty	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dusty	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 road	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dusty	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dusty	cop
13	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	14 dusty	advmod
14	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 reached	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 reached	cc
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 Hans	case
18	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 reached	obl
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 reached	aux
20	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 dusty	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 milestone	det
22	sixth	sixth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 milestone	amod
23	milestone	milestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reached	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tired	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tired	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 tired	advmod
27	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 milestone	acl:relcl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tired	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 sit	mark
32	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	xcomp
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 sit	compound:prt
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 rest	cc
35	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 sit	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	cap	a hot day			tree rules
2	is in a quote	past	the road			dusty, terribly property	tree rules
3	reach in a quote	past · perfect		the sixth milestone	before Hans		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent milestone=Theme
4	is in a quote	past	Hans	the sixth milestone not said here		tired property	tree rules
5	have in a quote	past	Hans				tree rules
6	sit down in a quote	to-infinitive	Hans not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	rest in a quote	infinitive	Hans not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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