The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 125
After he had waited there some time, he sold the sack of flour for a very good price, and then he returned home at once, for he was afraid that if he stopped too late he might meet some robbers on the way.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: wait, sell, return, be, stop, meet · To what, where: sack, robbers, way
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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 waited | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | aux |
| 4 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 sold | advcl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 waited | advmod |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sold | nsubj |
| 10 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sack | det |
| 12 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sold | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 flour | case |
| 14 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sack | nmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 price | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 price | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 good | advmod |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 price | amod |
| 19 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sold | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 returned | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 returned | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 returned | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 returned | nsubj |
| 24 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sold | parataxis |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 returned | advmod |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 once | case |
| 27 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 returned | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 afraid | punct |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 afraid | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 afraid | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 afraid | cop |
| 32 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 returned | conj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 meet | mark |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 stopped | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 stopped | nsubj |
| 36 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 meet | advcl |
| 37 | too | too | ADV | _ | 38 late | advmod |
| 38 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 stopped | advmod |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 meet | nsubj |
| 40 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 meet | aux |
| 41 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 afraid | advcl |
| 42 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 robbers | det |
| 43 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 meet | obj |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 way | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 way | det |
| 46 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 meet | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · perfect | Hans | there | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | sell | past | Hans | the sack of flour | for a good price | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent sack=Theme for price=Asset | |||
| 3 | return | past | Hans | then | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | Hans | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stop a condition, not said to happen | past | Hans | late property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | meet | might | Hans | some robbers | the way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Co-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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