The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 49

The climate in the north of Europe is really dreadful.

Who acts: climate · What happens: be

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 (climate), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 climate	det
2	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dreadful	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 north	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 north	det
5	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climate	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Europe	case
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 north	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dreadful	cop
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 dreadful	advmod
10	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 dreadful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the climate in the north of Europe					dreadful 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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