The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 49
So they piled the faggots together, and put the Rocket on top, and lit the fire.
Who acts: boys · What happens: pile, put, light · To what, where: faggots, Rocket, top, fire
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 piled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 piled | nsubj |
| 3 | piled | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 faggots | det |
| 5 | faggots | faggot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 piled | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 piled | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 put | cc |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 piled | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Rocket | det |
| 11 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 top | case |
| 13 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lit | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lit | cc |
| 16 | lit | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 piled | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fire | det |
| 18 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lit | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 piled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile | past | boys = boy | the faggots | together property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme faggot=Destination | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | boys = boy not said here | the Rocket | top | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent rocket=Theme on top=Destination | |||
| 3 | light | past | boys = boy not said here | the fire | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
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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