The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 139
So the Swallow plucked out the Prince’s eye, and flew away to the student’s garret.
Who acts: Swallow · What happens: pluck out, fly away · To what, where: eye
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 plucked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Swallow | det |
| 3 | Swallow | Swallow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 plucked | nsubj |
| 4 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 plucked | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 eye | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Prince | case |
| 9 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plucked | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flew | cc |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 plucked | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 flew | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 garret | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 student | det |
| 16 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 garret | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 student | case |
| 18 | garret | garret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flew | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 plucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck out | past | the Swallow | the Prince's eye | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fly away | past | the Swallow not said here | to the student's garret result; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to garret=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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