The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 49

However, he was very courageous, and after he had been walking about three hours, he arrived at the Doctor’s house, and knocked at the door.

Who acts: Hans · What happens: be, walk, arrive, knock · To what, where: house

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 (Hans), 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 courageous	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 courageous	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 courageous	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 courageous	advmod
6	courageous	courageous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 arrived	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 arrived	cc
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 walking	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 walking	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 walking	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 walking	aux
13	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 arrived	advcl
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 three	advmod
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 hours	nummod
16	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 walking	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 walking	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 arrived	nsubj
19	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 courageous	parataxis
20	at	at	ADP	_	24 house	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Doctor	det
22	Doctor	Doctor	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 house	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 Doctor	case
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 arrived	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 knocked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 knocked	cc
27	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 arrived	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 door	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 door	det
30	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 knocked	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 courageous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hans			courageous, however property	tree rules
2	walk	past · perfect · progressive	Hans		hour		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	arrive	past	Hans	the Doctor's house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	knock	past	Hans not said here			at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient

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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