The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 15
He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets.
Who acts: Mystery, starving children · What happens: fly, see, starve, look out · To what, where: dark lanes, white faces, black streets
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 (Mystery, starving children), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 lanes | case |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lanes | amod |
| 5 | lanes | lane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flew | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 faces | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 faces | amod |
| 11 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 children | case |
| 13 | starving | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 children | amod |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 faces | nmod |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 children | acl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 looking | compound:prt |
| 17 | listlessly | listlessly | ADV | _ | 15 looking | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 streets | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 streets | det |
| 20 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 streets | amod |
| 21 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 looking | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Mystery | into dark lanes result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into lane=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Mystery not said here | the white faces of starving children | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | starve | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | look out | gerund | starving children not said here | the black streets | listlessly property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: 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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