The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 17
He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt.
Who acts: Friend · What happens: gild, have, glow · To what, where: Friend, two bright sapphires, large red ruby, sword hilt
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 (Friend), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gilded | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gilded | aux:pass |
| 3 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 over | advmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 gilded | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 leaves | case |
| 7 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 leaves | amod |
| 8 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gilded | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 10 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gold | amod |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leaves | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gilded | parataxis |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 sapphires | nummod |
| 18 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sapphires | amod |
| 19 | sapphires | sapphire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ruby | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ruby | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 ruby | det |
| 23 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ruby | amod |
| 24 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ruby | amod |
| 25 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obl |
| 26 | glowed | glow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 ruby | acl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 hilt | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 hilt | nmod:poss |
| 29 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hilt | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 sword | punct |
| 31 | hilt | hilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 glowed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gilded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gild | past · passive | Friend | with thin leaves of fine gold; over property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with leaf=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Friend | two bright sapphires | for eyes; a large red ruby obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sapphire=Patient | |||
| 3 | glow | participle | a large red ruby not said here | Friend's sword hilt | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hilt=Location |
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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