The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 77
“My friends are flying up and down the Nile, and talking to the large lotus-flowers.
Who acts: friends · What happens: fly up, talk
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 (friends), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 flying | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friends | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flying | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 flying | aux |
| 5 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 flying | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Nile | cc |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 Nile | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Nile | det |
| 10 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 flying | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 talking | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 talking | cc |
| 13 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 flying | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 flowers | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 flowers | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 flowers | amod |
| 17 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flowers | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 lotus | punct |
| 19 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 talking | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly up in a quote | present · progressive | My friends | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | talk in a quote | gerund | My friends not said here | to the large lotus flowers | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to flower=Co-Agent |
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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