The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 24

When she made her great public appearance she spun round nineteen times before she went out, and each time that she did so she threw into the air seven pink stars.

Who acts: Wheel · What happens: make, spin round, go out, do, throw · To what, where: great public appearance, time, seven pink stars, air

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 (Wheel), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 made	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spun	advcl
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 appearance	nmod:poss
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 appearance	amod
6	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 appearance	amod
7	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spun	nsubj
9	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	round	round	ADV	_	11 nineteen	advmod
11	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 times	nummod
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spun	obl:unmarked
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 went	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spun	advcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 went	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 threw	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 threw	cc
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 time	det
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 threw	obl:unmarked
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 did	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 did	nsubj
23	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 time	acl:relcl
24	so	so	ADV	_	23 did	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 threw	nsubj
26	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spun	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 air	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 air	det
29	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 threw	obl
30	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 stars	nummod
31	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 stars	amod
32	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 threw	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 spun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Wheel	Wheel's great public appearance			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Product
2	spin round	past	Wheel		time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	go out	past	Wheel				vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	past	Wheel	each time not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Eventuality
5	throw	past	Wheel	seven pink stars	time	into the air result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer star=Theme into air=Result

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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