The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 28

It took him the whole day to get there and back; and when he returned he was so tired that he went off to sleep in his chair, and did not wake up till it was broad daylight.

Who acts: It, Miller, chair · What happens: take, get, return, be, go off, sleep · To what, where: Miller, chair

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 (It, Miller, chair), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl:unmarked
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	advcl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 get	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 back	cc
11	back	back	ADV	_	9 there	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 returned	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 returned	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 returned	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 returned	nsubj
16	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tired	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tired	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 tired	advmod
20	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 returned	ccomp
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 went	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tired	ccomp
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 went	compound:prt
25	to	to	PART	_	26 sleep	mark
26	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 went	advcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 chair	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 chair	nmod:poss
29	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sleep	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wake	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wake	cc
32	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 wake	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 wake	advmod
34	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 wake	compound:prt
36	till	till	ADP	_	40 daylight	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 daylight	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 daylight	cop
39	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 daylight	amod
40	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wake	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It	Miller		day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	get	to-infinitive			there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	return	past	Miller					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	Miller				tired property	tree rules
5	go off	past	Miller					vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
6	sleep	to-infinitive	Miller not said here		Miller's chair			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
7	not wake up	past · do-support						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	is	past	chair			till broad daylight		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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