The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 62

I heard all about it the other day from a critic who was walking round the pond with a young man.

Who acts: I, critic · What happens: hear, walk · To what, where: pond

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 (I, critic), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	2 heard	advmod
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obl:unmarked
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 critic	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 critic	det
11	critic	critic	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 day	nmod
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 walking	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 walking	aux
14	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 critic	acl:relcl
15	round	round	ADP	_	17 pond	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pond	det
17	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walking	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 man	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walking	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I				day	about method; all property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus
2	walk	past · progressive	a critic			the pond		with a young man	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round pond=Trajectory

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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