The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 95

He had six attendants with him, each of whom carried a lighted torch at the end of a long pole.

Who acts: King · What happens: have, carry, light · To what, where: six attendants, lighted torch, end

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 (King), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 attendants	nummod
4	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 attendants	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 each	punct
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 attendants	appos
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 carried	mark
10	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 carried	nsubj
11	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 each	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 torch	det
13	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 torch	amod
14	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 end	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 end	det
17	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 pole	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pole	det
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pole	amod
21	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 end	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	King	six attendants		with Pyrotechnist	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Patient
2	carry	past		a lighted torch	at the end of a long pole		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Theme
3	light	participle					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: 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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