The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 124
They have eyes like green beryls, and their roar is louder than the roar of the cataract.”
Who acts: lions, roar, cataract · What happens: have, be, roar · To what, where: eyes
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 (lions, roar, cataract), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 beryls | case |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beryls | amod |
| 6 | beryls | beryl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eyes | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 louder | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 louder | cc |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 roar | nmod:poss |
| 10 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 louder | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 louder | cop |
| 12 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 have | parataxis |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 roar | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 roar | det |
| 15 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 louder | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cataract | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cataract | det |
| 18 | cataract | cataract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 roar | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | lions = lion | eyes | like green beryls | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | lions's roar | than the roar of the cataract; loud property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | roar | lions = lion | nom roar «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | roar | the cataract | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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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