The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 31
Indeed, I took the chair at a meeting some time ago, and we passed resolutions condemning everything that we did not like.
Who acts: I, we, resolutions · What happens: take, pass, condemn, not like · To what, where: chair, meeting, resolutions, everything
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we, resolutions), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chair | det |
| 6 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 meeting | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 meeting | det |
| 9 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 meeting | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 passed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 passed | cc |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 passed | nsubj |
| 16 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 17 | resolutions | resolution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 passed | obj |
| 18 | condemning | condemn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 resolutions | acl |
| 19 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 condemning | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 like | obj |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 like | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 like | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 like | advmod |
| 24 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 everything | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | I | the chair | a meeting | indeed property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent chair=Theme at meeting=Asset | ||
| 2 | pass | past | we | resolutions | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme resolution=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | condemn | gerund | resolutions not said here | everything | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not like | past · do-support | we | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=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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