The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 138

All night long she sang with her breast against the thorn, and the cold crystal Moon leaned down and listened.

Who acts: Moon, cold crystal · What happens: sing, learn down, listen

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, cold crystal), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	obl:unmarked
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 night	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sang	nsubj
5	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 breast	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 breast	nmod:poss
8	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	obl
9	against	against	ADP	_	11 thorn	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thorn	det
11	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 leaned	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 leaned	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 crystal	det
15	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 crystal	amod
16	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 leaned	nsubj
17	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 crystal	appos
18	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sang	conj
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 leaned	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 listened	cc
21	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 leaned	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	Moon	night	with Moon's breast; against the thorn	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with breast=Theme
2	learn down	past	the cold crystal			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	listen	past	the cold crystal not said here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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