The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 24

He lived in a tiny cottage all by himself, and every day he worked in his garden.

Who acts: rat · What happens: live, work · To what, where: tiny cottage

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 (rat), 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	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 cottage	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cottage	det
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cottage	amod
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
7	all	all	ADV	_	9 himself	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 lived	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 worked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 worked	cc
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 worked	obl:unmarked
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 worked	nsubj
15	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 garden	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 garden	nmod:poss
18	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 worked	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	rat			a tiny cottage		by rat	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=Location
2	work	past	rat				day	in rat's garden	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in garden=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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