The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 123
At noon the yellow lions come down to the water’s edge to drink.
Who acts: yellow lions · What happens: come down, drink · To what, where: edge
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 (yellow lions), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 noon | case |
| 2 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lions | det |
| 4 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lions | amod |
| 5 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 edge | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 edge | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 water | case |
| 12 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 drink | mark |
| 14 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | present | the yellow lions | the water's edge | noon | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | drink | to-infinitive | the yellow lions not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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