The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 70
“So the Miller tied the sails of the windmill together with a strong iron chain, and went down the hill with the basket on his arm.
Who acts: Miller · What happens: tie, go down · To what, where: sails, hill
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 (Miller), 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 | _ | 5 tied | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 tied | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Miller | det |
| 4 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tied | nsubj |
| 5 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sails | det |
| 7 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tied | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 windmill | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 windmill | det |
| 10 | windmill | windmill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sails | nmod |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 tied | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 chain | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 chain | det |
| 14 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chain | amod |
| 15 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chain | compound |
| 16 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tied | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tied | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 hill | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hill | det |
| 22 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 basket | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 basket | det |
| 25 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 arm | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 arm | nmod:poss |
| 28 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 basket | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie in a quote | past | the Miller | the sails of the windmill | with a strong iron chain; together property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sail=Patient with chain=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | go down in a quote | past | the Miller not said here | the hill | with the basket on sympathy's arm | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hill=Extent |
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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