The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 86
THE King’s son was going to be married, so there were general rejoicings.
Who acts: son, general rejoicings · What happens: go, marry, be
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 (son, general rejoicings), 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 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | aux |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 married | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 married | aux:pass |
| 9 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 going | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 were | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 were | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 were | expl |
| 13 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | conj |
| 14 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rejoicings | amod |
| 15 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 were | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | the King's son | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | the King's son not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | be | past | general rejoicings | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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