The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 40
My little boy has fallen off a ladder and hurt himself, and I am going for the Doctor.
Who acts: little boy, I · What happens: fall off, hurt, go · To what, where: ladder, boy
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 boy, I), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 boy | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fallen | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fallen | aux |
| 5 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 ladder | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ladder | det |
| 8 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fallen | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hurt | cc |
| 10 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fallen | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 hurt | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 going | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 going | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 hurt | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 Doctor | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Doctor | det |
| 19 | Doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 going | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall off | present · perfect | My little boy | a ladder | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient ladder=Extent | ||||
| 2 | hurt | past | My little boy not said here | boy | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | I | for the Doctor | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for doctor=Beneficiary |
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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