The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 114
Sweet is the scent of the hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill.
Who acts: Sweet, sweet bluebells, heather · What happens: be, hide, blow · To what, where: scent, sweet bluebells, valley, hill
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 (Sweet, sweet bluebells, heather), 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 | Sweet | sweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scent | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 scent | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 scent | det |
| 4 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hawthorn | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hawthorn | det |
| 7 | hawthorn | hawthorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scent | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bluebells | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bluebells | cc |
| 10 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bluebells | amod |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bluebells | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bluebells | det |
| 13 | bluebells | bluebell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scent | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 hide | nsubj |
| 15 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bluebells | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 valley | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 valley | det |
| 18 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hide | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 heather | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 heather | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 heather | det |
| 22 | heather | heather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scent | conj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 blows | nsubj |
| 24 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 heather | acl:relcl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 hill | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hill | det |
| 27 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 blows | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sweet | the scent and the sweet bluebells and the heather | of the hawthorn | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Sweet not said here | the sweet bluebells | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hide | present | the sweet bluebells | the valley | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in valley=Location | ||||
| 4 | blow | present | the heather | the hill | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
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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