The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 117
She swept over the garden like a shadow, and like a shadow she sailed through the grove.
Who acts: love · What happens: sweep, sail · To what, where: garden, grove
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 swept | nsubj |
| 2 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 garden | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swept | obl |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 shadow | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 shadow | det |
| 8 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swept | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sailed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sailed | cc |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 shadow | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 shadow | det |
| 13 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sailed | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sailed | nsubj |
| 15 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swept | conj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 grove | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 grove | det |
| 18 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sailed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | past | love | the garden | like a shadow | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over garden=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sail | past | love | the grove | like a shadow | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through grove=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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