The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 27

He flew so high that the people were afraid that he would never come down again.

Who acts: dead, people · What happens: fly, be, not come down

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 (dead, people), 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	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 high	advmod
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flew	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 afraid	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 people	det
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 afraid	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 afraid	cop
9	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flew	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 come	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 come	advmod
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 afraid	ccomp
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	again	again	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	dead		high property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the people		afraid property	tree rules
3	not come down	would	dead	again	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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