The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 21
Leaf after leaf of the fine gold the Swallow picked off, till the Happy Prince looked quite dull and grey.
Who acts: Leaf, Happy Prince · What happens: pick off, look
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 (Leaf, Happy Prince), 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 | Leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 picked | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 leaf | case |
| 3 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leaf | nmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gold | det |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gold | amod |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaf | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Swallow | det |
| 9 | Swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 picked | nsubj |
| 10 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 picked | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 looked | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Prince | det |
| 15 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Prince | amod |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 picked | conj |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 dull | advmod |
| 19 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 looked | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 grey | cc |
| 21 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dull | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick off | past | Leaf after leaf of the fine gold | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | past | the Happy Prince | dull property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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