The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 90
So the Swallow picked out the great ruby from the Prince’s sword, and flew away with it in his beak over the roofs of the town.
Who acts: Swallow · What happens: pick out, fly away · To what, where: great ruby, sword, beak
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 picked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Swallow | det |
| 3 | Swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 picked | nsubj |
| 4 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 picked | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ruby | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ruby | amod |
| 8 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 picked | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 sword | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sword | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Prince | case |
| 13 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 picked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flew | cc |
| 16 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 picked | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 flew | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 flew | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 beak | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 beak | nmod:poss |
| 22 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flew | obl |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 roofs | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 roofs | det |
| 25 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 flew | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 town | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 town | det |
| 28 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 roofs | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick out | past | the Swallow | the great ruby | the Prince's sword | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ruby=Theme from sword=Source | |||
| 2 | fly away | past | the Swallow not said here | Swallow's beak | with sword; over the roofs of the town; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in beak=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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