The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 54
“This broken lead heart will not melt in the furnace.
Who acts: lead heart · What happens: break, not melt · To what, where: furnace
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 (lead heart), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 melt | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heart | det |
| 3 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lead | amod |
| 4 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | compound |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 melt | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 melt | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 melt | advmod |
| 8 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 furnace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 furnace | det |
| 11 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 melt | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 melt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break in a quote | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | not melt in a quote | future | this lead heart | the furnace | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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