The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 54
The eyes of the Happy Prince were filled with tears, and tears were running down his golden cheeks.
Who acts: tears · What happens: fill, run down · To what, where: eyes, golden cheeks
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 (tears), 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 eyes | det |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Prince | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 5 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Prince | amod |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 eyes | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 filled | aux:pass |
| 8 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 tears | case |
| 10 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 filled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 running | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 running | cc |
| 13 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 running | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 running | aux |
| 15 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 filled | advcl |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 running | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 18 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cheeks | amod |
| 19 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 running | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | the eyes of the Happy Prince | with tears | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with tear=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | run down | past · progressive | tears | cloud's golden cheeks | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cheek=Theme |
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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