The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 29
He had just strength to fly up to the Prince’s shoulder once more.
Who acts: snow · What happens: have, fly up · To what, where: strength
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 strength | advmod |
| 4 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fly | mark |
| 6 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | advcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 fly | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 shoulder | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Prince | case |
| 12 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fly | obl |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 more | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 fly | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | snow | strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fly up | to-infinitive | snow not said here | to the Prince's shoulder result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to shoulder=Result |
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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