The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 116
So she spread her brown wings for flight, and soared into the air.
Who acts: love · What happens: spread, soar · To what, where: brown wings, air
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 (love), 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 | _ | 3 spread | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wings | amod |
| 6 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spread | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 flight | case |
| 8 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spread | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 soared | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 soared | cc |
| 11 | soared | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spread | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 soared | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | love | love's brown wings | for flight | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | |||
| 2 | soar | past | love not said here | the air | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into air=Trajectory |
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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