The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 103

“My roses are red,” it answered, “as red as the feet of the dove, and redder than the great fans of coral that wave and wave in the ocean-cavern.

Who acts: roses, red, coral · What happens: be, answer, wave · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (roses, red, coral), 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	_	5 red	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 roses	nmod:poss
3	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 red	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 red	cop
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 answered	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 red	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 red	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 answered	nsubj
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 red	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 red	punct
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 red	advmod
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 answered	ccomp
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 feet	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 feet	det
16	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 red	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 dove	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dove	det
19	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 feet	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 redder	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 redder	cc
22	redder	red	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 red	conj
23	than	than	ADP	_	26 fans	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fans	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fans	amod
26	fans	fan	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 redder	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 coral	case
28	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fans	nmod
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 wave	nsubj
30	wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 coral	acl:relcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wave	cc
32	wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 wave	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 cavern	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 cavern	det
35	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cavern	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 ocean	punct
37	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wave	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	My roses	red property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	red		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wave in a quote	present	coral		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wave in a quote	present	coral not said here	in the ocean cavern	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cavern=Theme

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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