The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 124
However, he went on bravely, and as last he reached the market.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: go on, reach · To what, where: market
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 (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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reached | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 reached | cc |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reached | nsubj |
| 12 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 market | det |
| 14 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | Hans | bravely, however property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | Hans | the market | as last | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent market=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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