The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 71

Then all that was left of him was the stick, and this fell down on the back of a Goose who was taking a walk by the side of the ditch.

Who acts: this, Goose · What happens: leave, be, fall down, take · To what, where: all, stick, back, walk

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 (this, Goose), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 left	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 left	nsubj:pass
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 left	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux:pass
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stick	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stick	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stick	det
10	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fell	cc
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 fell	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 back	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 back	det
18	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Goose	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 Goose	det
21	Goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 back	nmod
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 taking	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 taking	aux
24	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 Goose	acl:relcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 walk	det
26	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 taking	obj
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 side	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 side	det
29	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 taking	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 ditch	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ditch	det
32	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 side	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		all		then		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a	past		the stick			of noise	tree rules
3	fall down	past	this		the back of a Goose			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on back=Location
4	take	past · progressive	a Goose	a walk			by the side of the ditch	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=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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