The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 123
His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense.”
Who acts: lips, breath · What happens: be
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 (lips, breath), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 lips | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sweet | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sweet | cop |
| 4 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 honey | case |
| 6 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sweet | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 frankincense | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 frankincense | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 breath | nmod:poss |
| 10 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 frankincense | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 frankincense | cop |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 frankincense | case |
| 13 | frankincense | frankincense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sweet | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sweet | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sweet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Power's lips | as honey; sweet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Power's breath | like frankincense | 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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