The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 38
“There stood the Miller with a lantern in one hand and a big stick in the other.
What happens: stand · To what, where: Miller, one hand
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: 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 | _ | 3 stood | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | expl |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Miller | det |
| 5 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 lantern | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lantern | det |
| 8 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hand | nummod |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stick | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stick | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stick | amod |
| 15 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hand | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 other | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 other | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stick | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | past | the Miller | one hand and a big stick in the other; there | with a lantern | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent miller=Theme in hand=Destination |
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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