The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 57
His body was found the next day by some goatherds, floating in a great pool of water, and was brought back by them to the cottage.
Who acts: goatherds · What happens: find, float, bring back · To what, where: body, great pool, cottage
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 (goatherds), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 body | nmod:poss |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux:pass |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 goatherds | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 goatherds | det |
| 10 | goatherds | goatherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 found | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 floating | punct |
| 12 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 found | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pool | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pool | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pool | amod |
| 16 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 floating | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pool | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brought | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 brought | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 brought | aux:pass |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 found | conj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 brought | advmod |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 brought | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 cottage | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cottage | det |
| 28 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brought | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | some goatherds | horse's body | day | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | float | gerund | some goatherds not said here | a great pool of water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | bring back | past · passive | goatherds = goatherd | the cottage | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to cottage=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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