The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 112

The little Princess had never seen a firework in her life, so the King had given orders that the Royal Pyrotechnist should be in attendance on the day of her marriage.

Who acts: little Princess, King, Royal Pyrotechnist, Princess · What happens: not see, give, be, marry · To what, where: firework, life, orders, attendance

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 (little Princess, King, Royal Pyrotechnist, Princess), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Princess	amod
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 seen	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 seen	advmod
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 firework	det
8	firework	firework	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 life	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 firework	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 given	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 given	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 given	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 given	aux
17	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 seen	conj
18	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 given	obj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 attendance	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Pyrotechnist	det
21	Royal	Royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Pyrotechnist	amod
22	Pyrotechnist	Pyrotechnist	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 attendance	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 attendance	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 attendance	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 attendance	case
26	attendance	attendance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 given	advcl
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 day	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 attendance	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 marriage	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 marriage	nmod:poss
32	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 day	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect	the little Princess	a firework	Princess's life		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer firework=Stimulus
2	give	past · perfect	the King	orders			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
3	is	should	the Royal Pyrotechnist		attendance	day	tree rules
4	marry		Princess				nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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