The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 40

“I am glad that she has gone,” he said to himself, “she has a decidedly middle-class mind”; and he sank a little deeper still into the mud, and began to think about the loneliness of genius, when suddenly two little boys in white smocks came running down the bank, with a kettle and some faggots.

Who acts: Rocket, Duck, two little boys · What happens: be, go, say, have, sink, begin · To what, where: Rocket, decidedly class mind, mud, bank · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Rocket, Duck, two little boys), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 glad	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 glad	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 glad	cop
4	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 gone	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gone	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	aux
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 glad	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 has	nsubj
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 mind	det
20	decidedly	decidedly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mind	amod
21	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 class	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 middle	punct
23	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mind	compound
24	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 has	obj
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 sank	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sank	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sank	nsubj
29	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 glad	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 little	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 deeper	obl
32	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 sank	ccomp
33	still	still	ADV	_	36 mud	advmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 mud	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 mud	det
36	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sank	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 began	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 began	cc
39	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sank	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 think	mark
41	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 began	xcomp
42	about	about	ADP	_	44 loneliness	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 loneliness	det
44	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 think	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 genius	case
46	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 loneliness	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 came	punct
48	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	56 came	advmod
49	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	50 two	advmod
50	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 boys	nummod
51	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 boys	amod
52	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 came	nsubj
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 smocks	case
54	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 smocks	amod
55	smocks	smock	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 boys	nmod
56	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 loneliness	parataxis
57	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 came	advcl
58	down	down	ADP	_	60 bank	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 bank	det
60	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 running	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 kettle	punct
62	with	with	ADP	_	64 kettle	case
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 kettle	det
64	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 running	obl
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 faggots	cc
66	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	67 faggots	det
67	faggots	faggot	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 kettle	conj
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Rocket				glad property	tree rules
2	go in a quote	present · perfect	Duck					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Rocket		Rocket			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
4	have in a quote	present	Duck	a decidedly class mind				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
5	sink	past	Rocket			the mud		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	begin	past	Rocket not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Rocket not said here				about the loneliness of genius	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about loneliness=Topic
8	come	past	two little boys in white smocks					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	run down	gerund	two little boys in white smocks not said here	the bank			with a kettle and some faggots	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Product with kettle=Material

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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