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The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 4

I heard all about them this morning from a brown-paper cartridge, who happened to be staying in the same drawer as myself, and knew the latest Court news.”

Who acts: I, paper cartridge · What happens: hear, happen, stay, know · To what, where: paper cartridge, same drawer, latest Court news

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 (I, paper cartridge), 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

nsubjadvmodcaseobldetobl:unmarkedcasedetamodpunctcompoundoblpunctnsubjacl:relclmarkauxadvclcasedetamodoblcaseoblpunctccparataxisdetamodcompoundobjpunctpunctrootIPRONheardVERBallADVaboutADPthemPRONthisDETmorningNOUNfromADPaDETbrownADJ-PUNCTpaperNOUNcartridgeNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONhappenedVERBtoPARTbeAUXstayingVERBinADPtheDETsameADJdrawerNOUNasADPmyselfPRON,PUNCTandCCONJknewVERBtheDETlatestADJCourtNOUNnewsNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs2 heardnsubj
2heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3allallADV_2 heardadvmod
4aboutaboutADP_5 themcase
5themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 heardobl
6thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem7 morningdet
7morningmorningNOUNNumber=Sing2 heardobl:unmarked
8fromfromADP_13 cartridgecase
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 cartridgedet
10brownbrownADJDegree=Pos12 paperamod
11--PUNCT_10 brownpunct
12paperpaperNOUNNumber=Sing13 cartridgecompound
13cartridgecartridgeNOUNNumber=Sing2 heardobl
14,,PUNCT_16 happenedpunct
15whowhoPRONPronType=Rel16 happenednsubj
16happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 cartridgeacl:relcl
17totoPART_19 stayingmark
18bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf19 stayingaux
19stayingstayVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part16 happenedadvcl
20ininADP_23 drawercase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 drawerdet
22samesameADJDegree=Pos23 draweramod
23drawerdrawerNOUNNumber=Sing19 stayingobl
24asasADP_25 myselfcase
25myselfmyselfPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes19 stayingobl
26,,PUNCT_28 knewpunct
27andandCCONJ_28 knewcc
28knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 heardparataxis
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 newsdet
30latestlateADJDegree=Sup32 newsamod
31CourtcourtNOUNNumber=Sing32 newscompound
32newsnewsNOUNNumber=Sing28 knewobj
33..PUNCT_2 heardpunct
34”"PUNCT_2 heardpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hearpastIa paper cartridgemorningabout bride; all propertyvn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.source»: agent=Agent about they=Theme from cartridge=Source
2happenpasta paper cartridgevn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3stayto-infinitive · progressivea paper cartridge not said herethe same draweras myselfvn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in drawer=Location
4knowpastthe latest Court newsvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus

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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