The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 100
So the Nightingale flew over to the Rose-tree that was growing beneath the Student’s window.
Who acts: Nightingale, Rose tree · What happens: fly over, grow · To what, where: window
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nightingale, Rose tree), 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 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Nightingale | det |
| 3 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 8 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Rose | punct |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 growing | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 growing | aux |
| 13 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 tree | acl:relcl |
| 14 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Student | det |
| 16 | Student | Student | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 window | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Student | case |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 growing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly over | past | the Nightingale | to the Rose tree result; over property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result | ||||
| 2 | grow | past · progressive | the Rose tree | the Student's window | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath window=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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