The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 70
She is embroidering passion-flowers on a satin gown for the loveliest of the Queen’s maids-of-honour to wear at the next Court-ball.
Who acts: woman · What happens: embroider, wear · To what, where: passion flowers, satin gown, next Court ball
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 embroidering | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 embroidering | aux |
| 3 | embroidering | embroider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flowers | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 passion | punct |
| 6 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 embroidering | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 gown | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 gown | det |
| 9 | satin | satin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gown | amod |
| 10 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 embroidering | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 loveliest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 loveliest | det |
| 13 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 embroidering | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 maids | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Queen | det |
| 16 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 maids | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Queen | case |
| 18 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 loveliest | nmod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 honour | punct |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 honour | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 of | punct |
| 22 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 maids | appos |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 wear | mark |
| 24 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 honour | acl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 ball | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ball | det |
| 27 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 ball | amod |
| 28 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ball | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Court | punct |
| 30 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wear | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 embroidering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embroider | present · progressive | woman | passion flowers | a satin gown | for the loveliest of the Queen's maids | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flower=Product for lovely=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | wear | to-infinitive | woman not said here | the next Court ball | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at ball=Source |
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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