The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 26
The poor little Swallow grew colder and colder, but he would not leave the Prince, he loved him too well.
Who acts: poor little Swallow, snow · What happens: grow, not leave, love · To what, where: Prince
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 (poor little Swallow, snow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Swallow | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Swallow | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Swallow | amod |
| 4 | Swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | colder | cold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 colder | cc |
| 8 | colder | cold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 colder | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leave | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 leave | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 leave | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 leave | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 leave | advmod |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 grew | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Prince | det |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 leave | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 loved | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 loved | nsubj |
| 19 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 loved | obj |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 well | advmod |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 loved | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the poor little Swallow | cold property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not leave | would | snow | the Prince | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 3 | love | past | snow | Prince | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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