The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 101
Then he flew gently round the bed, fanning the boy’s forehead with his wings.
Who acts: Swallow · What happens: fly, fan · To what, where: bed, forehead
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Swallow), 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 | 3 flew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bed | det |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fanning | punct |
| 9 | fanning | fan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 flew | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 boy | case |
| 13 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fanning | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 wings | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wings | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fanning | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Swallow | the bed | then | gently property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round bed=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | fan | gerund | Swallow not said here | the boy's forehead | with Swallow's wings | tree rules |
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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