The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 113
It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and to watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl.
Who acts: It · What happens: be, sit, watch · To what, where: green wood, Sun, chariot
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 (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pleasant | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleasant | cop |
| 3 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sit | mark |
| 5 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pleasant | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wood | det |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wood | amod |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 watch | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 watch | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 watch | mark |
| 13 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleasant | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sun | det |
| 15 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 watch | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 chariot | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 18 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 watch | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 gold | case |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chariot | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 chariot | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 chariot | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Moon | det |
| 24 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 chariot | nsubj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 chariot | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 27 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 watch | parataxis |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 pearl | case |
| 29 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 chariot | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleasant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | to-infinitive | the green wood | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location | |||||
| 3 | watch | to-infinitive | the Sun | life's chariot of gold | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=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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