The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 152
In Egypt the sun is warm on the green palm-trees, and the crocodiles lie in the mud and look lazily about them.
Who acts: sun, crocodiles · What happens: be, lie, look · To what, where: Egypt, mud
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 (sun, crocodiles), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Egypt | case |
| 2 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 warm | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 warm | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 warm | cop |
| 6 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 trees | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trees | det |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 trees | amod |
| 10 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trees | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 palm | punct |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 warm | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lie | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lie | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 crocodiles | det |
| 16 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lie | nsubj |
| 17 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 warm | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 mud | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mud | det |
| 20 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lie | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 look | cc |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 lie | conj |
| 23 | lazily | lazily | ADV | _ | 22 look | advmod |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 look | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 warm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the sun | Egypt | on the green palm trees; warm property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lie | present | the crocodiles | the mud | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mud=Location | ||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | the crocodiles not said here | about crocodiles = crocodile; lazily property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=Theme |
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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