The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 157
She has let her matches fall in the gutter, and they are all spoiled.
Who acts: girl, matches · What happens: let, fall, spoil · To what, where: Baalbec, gutter, matches
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 (girl, matches), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | aux |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fall | nsubj |
| 6 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | parataxis |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 gutter | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gutter | det |
| 9 | gutter | gutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fall | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoiled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spoiled | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spoiled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 spoiled | aux:pass |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 spoiled | advmod |
| 15 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 let | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | present | girl | Baalbec | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | present | matches | the gutter | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in gutter=Location | ||||
| 3 | spoil | present · passive | matches = match | all 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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