The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 93
At the gate of the Castle the Prince was waiting to receive her.
What happens: wait, receive · To what, where: gate, Princess
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: 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 | _ | 3 gate | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gate | det |
| 3 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waiting | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Castle | det |
| 6 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gate | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Castle | appos |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 waiting | aux |
| 10 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 receive | mark |
| 12 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 waiting | xcomp |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 receive | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · progressive | the gate of the Castle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | receive | to-infinitive | Princess | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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