The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 155
The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.”
Who acts: ruby, sapphire · What happens: be
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 (ruby, sapphire), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ruby | det |
| 2 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 redder | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 redder | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 redder | cop |
| 5 | redder | red | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 rose | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rose | det |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rose | amod |
| 9 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 redder | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 blue | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 blue | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sapphire | det |
| 13 | sapphire | sapphire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blue | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 blue | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 blue | cop |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 blue | advmod |
| 17 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 redder | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sea | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sea | amod |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blue | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 redder | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 redder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | the ruby | than a red rose; red property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | shall | the sapphire | as the great sea; blue 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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