The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 88

So I first sold the silver buttons off my Sunday coat, and then I sold my silver chain, and then I sold my big pipe, and at last I sold my wheelbarrow.

Who acts: I, silver · What happens: sell, button off · To what, where: Sunday coat, silver chain, big pipe, wheelbarrow, last

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, silver), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 sold	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sold	nsubj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 sold	advmod
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 silver	det
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buttons	nsubj
7	buttons	button	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sold	ccomp
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 buttons	compound:prt
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 coat	nmod:poss
10	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 coat	compound
11	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buttons	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sold	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sold	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 sold	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 sold	nsubj
16	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sold	conj
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 chain	nmod:poss
18	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chain	compound
19	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sold	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sold	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sold	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 sold	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 sold	nsubj
24	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sold	conj
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 pipe	nmod:poss
26	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pipe	amod
27	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sold	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sold	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sold	cc
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 last	case
31	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sold	obl
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 sold	nsubj
33	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sold	conj
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 wheelbarrow	nmod:poss
35	wheelbarrow	wheelbarrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sold	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	I				first property	tree rules
2	button off	present	the silver	my Sunday coat				vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient
3	sell	past	I	my silver chain		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Theme
4	sell	past	I	my big pipe		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme
5	sell	past	I	my wheelbarrow	last			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent wheelbarrow=Theme at last=Asset

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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