The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 134
They are made of rare sapphires, which were brought out of India a thousand years ago.
What happens: make, bring out · To what, where: eyes, rare sapphires, India
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: 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 | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sapphires | case |
| 5 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sapphires | amod |
| 6 | sapphires | sapphire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | aux:pass |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sapphires | acl:relcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 India | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 India | case |
| 13 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thousand | det |
| 15 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 10 brought | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | eyes = eye | of rare sapphires | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | bring out | past · passive | rare sapphires | India | ago property | 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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