The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 3
He swooped past the match-girl, and slipped the jewel into the palm of her hand.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: swoop, slip · To what, where: jewel, palm
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), 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 swooped | nsubj |
| 2 | swooped | swoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | past | past | ADP | _ | 7 girl | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 5 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girl | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 match | punct |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swooped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 slipped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 slipped | cc |
| 10 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swooped | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 jewel | det |
| 12 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slipped | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 palm | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palm | det |
| 15 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slipped | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 palm | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swoop | past | Prince | past the match girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slip | past | the jewel | the palm of girl's hand | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent jewel=Patient |
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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