The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 153
My companions are building a nest in the Temple of Baalbec, and the pink and white doves are watching them, and cooing to each other.
Who acts: companions, pink doves · What happens: build, watch, coo · To what, where: nest, Temple, companions, each
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 (companions, pink doves), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 companions | nmod:poss |
| 2 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 building | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 building | aux |
| 4 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 nest | det |
| 6 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 building | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Temple | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Temple | det |
| 9 | Temple | Temple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 nest | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Baalbec | case |
| 11 | Baalbec | Baalbec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Temple | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 watching | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 watching | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 doves | det |
| 15 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 doves | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 white | cc |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pink | conj |
| 18 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 watching | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 watching | aux |
| 20 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 building | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 watching | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cooing | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cooing | cc |
| 24 | cooing | coo | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 building | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 each | case |
| 26 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 24 cooing | obl |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 each | fixed |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 building | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · progressive | My companions | a nest | the Temple of Baalbec | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product | |||
| 2 | watch | present · progressive | the pink doves | companions = companion | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | coo | gerund | My companions not said here | each | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |
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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