The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 35
And he kissed the Happy Prince on the lips, and fell down dead at his feet.
Who acts: Death · What happens: kiss, fall down · To what, where: Happy Prince, lips
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 (Death), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 kissed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kissed | nsubj |
| 3 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 5 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Prince | amod |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 lips | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lips | det |
| 9 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kissed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 fell | compound:prt |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fell | xcomp |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 feet | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 feet | nmod:poss |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dead | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | Death | the Happy Prince | the lips | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | fall down | past | Death not said here | dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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