The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 78
Soon they will go to sleep in the tomb of the great King.
Who acts: flowers · What happens: go, sleep · To what, where: tomb
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 (flowers), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sleep | mark |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tomb | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tomb | det |
| 9 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sleep | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 King | amod |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tomb | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | flowers = flower | soon property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | flowers = flower not said here | the tomb of the great King | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tomb=Location |
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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