The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 134

We sit in the old duck pond close by the farmer’s house, and as soon as the moon rises we begin.

Who acts: We, moon · What happens: sit, rise, begin · To what, where: old duck pond

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 (We, moon), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 sit	nsubj
2	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 pond	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pond	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pond	amod
6	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pond	compound
7	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sit	obl
8	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pond	amod
9	by	by	ADP	_	13 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 farmer	det
11	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 farmer	case
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 close	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rises	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rises	cc
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 soon	advmod
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 rises	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 rises	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 moon	det
20	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rises	nsubj
21	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sit	conj
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 begin	nsubj
23	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 rises	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present	We	the old duck pond		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pond=Location
2	rise	present	the moon		soon property	tree rules
3	begin	present	we			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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