The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 37
The fact is that the leaden heart had snapped right in two.
What happens: be · To what, where: fact, two
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: 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 | 2 fact | det |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 snapped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 snapped | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 snapped | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heart | det |
| 6 | leaden | leaden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 heart | amod |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 snapped | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 snapped | aux |
| 9 | snapped | snap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | right | right | ADV | _ | 12 two | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 two | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 snapped | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 snapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect · passive | the fact | two | snap property | tree rules |
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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