The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 139
All night long she sang, and the thorn went deeper and deeper into her breast, and her life-blood ebbed away from her.
Who acts: crystal, thorn, life blood · What happens: sing, go, ebb away
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 (crystal, thorn, life blood), 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 | 5 sang | 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thorn | det |
| 9 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sang | conj |
| 11 | deeper | deep | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 deeper | cc |
| 13 | deeper | deep | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 deeper | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 breast | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 breast | nmod:poss |
| 16 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deeper | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ebbed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ebbed | cc |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 blood | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 blood | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 life | punct |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ebbed | nsubj |
| 23 | ebbed | ebb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sang | conj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 ebbed | advmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ebbed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | crystal | night | long property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||
| 2 | go | past | the thorn | deep property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ebb away | participle | crystal's life blood | from crystal; away property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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