The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 122
Flame-coloured are his wings, and coloured like flame is his body.
What happens: colour, be · To what, where: coloured wings, body
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: 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 | Flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coloured | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Flame | punct |
| 3 | coloured | colour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wings | amod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wings | cop |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wings | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 coloured | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 coloured | cc |
| 9 | coloured | colour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wings | acl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 flame | case |
| 11 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 body | obl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 body | cop |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 body | nmod:poss |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coloured | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | colour | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Power's coloured wings | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | colour | participle | Power's coloured wings not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | Power's body | like flame | tree rules |
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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