The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 125
But the Oak-tree understood, and felt sad, for he was very fond of the little Nightingale who had built her nest in his branches.
Who acts: Oak tree, Student · What happens: understand, feel, be, build · To what, where: nest, branches
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 (Oak tree, Student), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 understood | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 3 | Oak | Oak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Oak | punct |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 understood | nsubj |
| 6 | understood | understand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 felt | cc |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 understood | parataxis |
| 10 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 felt | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fond | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 fond | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fond | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fond | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 fond | advmod |
| 16 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 felt | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Nightingale | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Nightingale | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Nightingale | amod |
| 20 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 built | obl |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 built | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 built | aux |
| 23 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 fond | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 nest | nmod:poss |
| 25 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 built | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 branches | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 branches | nmod:poss |
| 28 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 built | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | participle | the Oak tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Student | fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | build | past · perfect | love's nest | Student's branches | of the little Nightingale | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product |
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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