The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 55
His face was so beautiful in the moonlight that the little Swallow was filled with pity.
Who acts: face · What happens: be, fill · To what, where: moonlight, little Swallow
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 (face), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beautiful | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 moonlight | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 moonlight | det |
| 8 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beautiful | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 filled | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Swallow | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Swallow | amod |
| 12 | Swallow | Swallow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 filled | aux:pass |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 moonlight | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 pity | case |
| 16 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | cloud's face | the moonlight | beautiful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | the little Swallow | with pity | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with pity=Instrument |
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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