The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 87
But the Happy Prince looked so sad that the little Swallow was sorry.
Who acts: Happy Prince, little Swallow · What happens: look, be
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 (Happy Prince, little Swallow), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 looked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 3 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Prince | amod |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 sad | advmod |
| 7 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looked | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 sorry | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Swallow | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Swallow | amod |
| 11 | Swallow | Swallow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sorry | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sorry | cop |
| 13 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sad | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Happy Prince | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the little Swallow | sorry property | 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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