The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 127
So the Nightingale sang to the Oak-tree, and her voice was like water bubbling from a silver jar.
Who acts: Nightingale, voice, like water · What happens: sing, be, bubble · To what, where: Oak tree, like water, silver jar
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 (Nightingale, voice, like water), 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 | _ | 4 sang | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Nightingale | det |
| 3 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sang | nsubj |
| 4 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 7 | Oak | Oak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Oak | punct |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sang | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 water | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 water | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 voice | nmod:poss |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 water | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 water | cop |
| 15 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 water | amod |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sang | obl |
| 17 | bubbling | bubble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 water | acl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 jar | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 jar | det |
| 20 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 jar | compound |
| 21 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bubbling | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | the Nightingale | the Oak tree | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to tree=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | love's voice | like water | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bubble | gerund | like water not said here | a silver jar | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from jar=Source |
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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