The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 95
“I hope my dress will be ready in time for the State-ball,” she answered; “I have ordered passion-flowers to be embroidered on it; but the seamstresses are so lazy.”
Who acts: girl, dress, Swallow, seamstresses · What happens: hope, be, answer, order, embroider · To what, where: passion flowers, dress · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (girl, dress, Swallow, seamstresses), 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 | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hope | nsubj |
| 3 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dress | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ready | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 ready | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ready | cop |
| 8 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hope | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ready | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 ball | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ball | det |
| 13 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ball | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 State | punct |
| 15 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ready | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 answered | nsubj |
| 19 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hope | parataxis |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 ordered | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 ordered | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 ordered | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 ordered | aux |
| 24 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 hope | conj |
| 25 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flowers | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 passion | punct |
| 27 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ordered | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 embroidered | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 embroidered | aux:pass |
| 30 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 ordered | advcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 embroidered | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 lazy | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 lazy | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 seamstresses | det |
| 36 | seamstresses | seamstress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 lazy | nsubj |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 lazy | cop |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 lazy | advmod |
| 39 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hope | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope in a quote | present | girl | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | future | my dress | time | for the State ball; ready property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | girl | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | order in a quote | present · perfect | Swallow | passion flowers | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | ||||
| 5 | embroider in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | Swallow not said here | dress | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: on it=Destination | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | the seamstresses | lazy 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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