The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 107
After the banquet there was to be a Ball.
Who acts: Ball · What happens: be · To what, where: Ball
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ball), 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 | ADP | _ | 3 banquet | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 banquet | det |
| 3 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 Ball | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Ball | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Ball | det |
| 9 | Ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a Ball | there | after the banquet | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a Ball | tree rules |
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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