The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 56

At last he lost his way, and wandered off on the moor, which was a very dangerous place, as it was full of deep holes, and there poor little Hans was drowned.

Who acts: horse, moor, way · What happens: lose, wander off, be, drown · To what, where: way, last, moor, dangerous place, poor little Hans

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 (horse, moor, way), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wandered	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wandered	cc
9	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 wandered	compound:prt
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 moor	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 moor	det
13	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wandered	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 place	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 place	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 place	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 place	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 dangerous	advmod
19	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 place	amod
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 moor	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 full	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 full	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 full	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 full	cop
25	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wandered	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 holes	case
27	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 holes	amod
28	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 full	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 drowned	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 drowned	cc
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 drowned	expl
32	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Hans	amod
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Hans	amod
34	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 drowned	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 drowned	aux:pass
36	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lost	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lose	past	horse	horse's way	last		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
2	wander off	past	horse not said here		the moor and a dangerous place		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on moor=Trajectory
3	is a	past	the moor and a dangerous place	a dangerous place			tree rules
4	is	past	way			of deep holes; full property	tree rules
5	drown	past · passive		poor little Hans	there		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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