The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 13

He was something of a politician, and had always taken a prominent part in the local elections, so he knew the proper Parliamentary expressions to use.

Who acts: order · What happens: be, take, know, use · To what, where: something, prominent part, local elections, proper Parliamentary expressions

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (order), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 something	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 something	cop
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 politician	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 politician	det
6	politician	politician	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 something	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 taken	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 taken	cc
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 taken	aux
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 taken	advmod
11	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 something	acl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 part	det
13	prominent	prominent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 part	amod
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taken	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 elections	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 elections	det
17	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 elections	amod
18	elections	election	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 taken	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 knew	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 knew	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 knew	nsubj
22	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 taken	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 expressions	det
24	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 expressions	amod
25	Parliamentary	parliamentary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 expressions	amod
26	expressions	expression	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 knew	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 use	mark
28	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 expressions	acl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 something	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	order	something		of a politician	tree rules
2	take	past · perfect		a prominent part	the local elections	always property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in election=Location
3	know	past	order	the proper Parliamentary expressions			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer expression=Stimulus
4	use	to-infinitive	order not said here	the proper Parliamentary expressions not said here			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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