The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 137
And when the Moon shone in the heavens the Nightingale flew to the Rose-tree, and set her breast against the thorn.
Who acts: Moon, Nightingale · What happens: shine, fly, set · To what, where: heavens, breast, thorn
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 (Moon, Nightingale), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flew | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 shone | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Moon | det |
| 4 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 shone | nsubj |
| 5 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 flew | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 heavens | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heavens | det |
| 8 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shone | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Nightingale | det |
| 10 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 flew | nsubj |
| 11 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 14 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Rose | punct |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flew | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 set | cc |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 flew | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 breast | nmod:poss |
| 21 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obj |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 24 thorn | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 thorn | det |
| 24 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the Moon | the heavens | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heaven=Location | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the Nightingale | to the Rose tree result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result | ||||
| 3 | set | past | the Nightingale not said here | Moon's breast | the thorn | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent breast=Theme against thorn=Destination |
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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