The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 69

Her face is thin and worn, and she has coarse, red hands, all pricked by the needle, for she is a seamstress.

Who acts: face, woman · What happens: be, have, prick · To what, where: coarse red hands

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, woman), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 face	nmod:poss
2	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thin	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thin	cop
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 worn	cc
6	worn	worn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thin	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 has	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thin	parataxis
11	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hands	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hands	punct
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hands	amod
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 has	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pricked	punct
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 pricked	advmod
17	pricked	prick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 hands	acl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 needle	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 needle	det
20	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pricked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seamstress	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	26 seamstress	case
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seamstress	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 seamstress	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 seamstress	det
26	seamstress	seamstress	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	woman's face		thin property	tree rules
2	be		woman's face not said here			tree rules
3	have	present	woman	coarse red hands		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	prick	participle		coarse red hands not said here	by the needle; all property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	woman		for a seamstress	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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