The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 36
And certainly, whenever the wind blew, the Reed made the most graceful curtseys.
Who acts: wind, Reed · What happens: blow, make · To what, where: graceful curtseys
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 (wind, Reed), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 blew | cc |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 blew | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 blew | punct |
| 4 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 blew | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wind | det |
| 6 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blew | nsubj |
| 7 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Reed | det |
| 10 | Reed | Reed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 blew | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 curtseys | det |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 graceful | advmod |
| 14 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 curtseys | amod |
| 15 | curtseys | curtsey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the wind | certainly, whenever property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the Reed | the graceful curtseys | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtsey=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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