The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 22
Leaf after leaf of the fine gold he brought to the poor, and the children’s faces grew rosier, and they laughed and played games in the street.
Who acts: Prince, Leaf, leaves · What happens: bring, grow, laugh, play · To what, where: fine gold, poor, games, street
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 (Prince, Leaf, leaves), 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 | 19 grew | 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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | nsubj |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gold | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 poor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 poor | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brought | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 grew | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 children | det |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 faces | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 children | case |
| 18 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 grew | nsubj |
| 19 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | rosier | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 grew | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 laughed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 laughed | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 laughed | nsubj |
| 24 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 grew | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 played | cc |
| 26 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 laughed | conj |
| 27 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 played | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 street | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 street | det |
| 30 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 played | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Prince | the fine gold not said here | the poor | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gold=Theme to poor=Destination | |||
| 2 | grow | past | Leaf after leaf of the fine gold | rosy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | laugh | past | leaves = leaf | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | play | past | leaves = leaf not said here | games | the street | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
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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