The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 31
This was his courtship, and it lasted all through the summer.
Who acts: This, courtship · What happens: be, last · To what, where: courtship
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 (This, courtship), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 courtship | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 courtship | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 courtship | nmod:poss |
| 4 | courtship | courtship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lasted | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lasted | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lasted | nsubj |
| 8 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 courtship | acl:relcl |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 summer | advmod |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 summer | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 summer | det |
| 12 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lasted | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 courtship | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | Swallow's courtship | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | last | past | courtship | Swallow's courtship not said here | summer | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme courtship=Value |
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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