The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 30
So he flew round and round her, touching the water with his wings, and making silver ripples.
Who acts: Swallow · What happens: fly, touch, make · To what, where: water, silver ripples
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 (Swallow), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 her | cc |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 touching | punct |
| 9 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 flew | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 touching | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 wings | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wings | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 touching | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 making | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 making | cc |
| 17 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 touching | conj |
| 18 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ripples | compound |
| 19 | ripples | ripple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 making | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Swallow | round property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | touch | gerund | Swallow not said here | the water | with Swallow's wings | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent water=Experiencer with wing=Instrument | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | Swallow not said here | silver ripples | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ripple=Product |
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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