The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 159
She has no shoes or stockings, and her little head is bare.
Who acts: girl, little head · What happens: have, be · To what, where: shoes
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, little head), 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 | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 shoes | det |
| 4 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 stockings | cc |
| 6 | stockings | stocking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shoes | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bare | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bare | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 head | amod |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bare | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bare | cop |
| 13 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 has | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | girl | no shoes or stockings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | girl's little head | bare 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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