The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 120
“To-morrow my friends will fly up to the Second Cataract.
Who acts: friends · What happens: fly up
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 (friends), 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 | _ | 8 fly | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 To | punct |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fly | obl |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friends | nmod:poss |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fly | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fly | aux |
| 8 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 fly | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Cataract | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Cataract | det |
| 12 | Second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 Cataract | amod |
| 13 | Cataract | cataract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fly | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly up in a quote | future | my friends | to morrow result; to the Second Cataract | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to morrow=Result |
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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