The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 127
His hair is brown and crisp, and his lips are red as a pomegranate, and he has large and dreamy eyes.
Who acts: hair, lips, Swallow · What happens: be, have · To what, where: large 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 (hair, lips, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brown | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brown | cop |
| 4 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 crisp | cc |
| 6 | crisp | crisp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brown | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 red | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 red | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lips | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 red | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 red | cop |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brown | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 pomegranate | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pomegranate | det |
| 15 | pomegranate | pomegranate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 red | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 has | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 has | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 has | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brown | conj |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 eyes | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dreamy | cc |
| 22 | dreamy | dreamy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 large | conj |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 has | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Swallow's hair | brown property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Swallow's hair not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | Swallow's lips | as a pomegranate; red property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | Swallow | large eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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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