The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 67
His hair is dark as the hyacinth-blossom, and his lips are red as the rose of his desire; but passion has made his face like pale ivory, and sorrow has set her seal upon his brow.”
Who acts: hair, lips, lover · What happens: be, make, set, desire · To what, where: passion, sorrow
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 (hair, lips, lover), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dark | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dark | cop |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 blossom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 blossom | det |
| 7 | hyacinth | hyacinth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blossom | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 hyacinth | punct |
| 9 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dark | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 red | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 red | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lips | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 red | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 red | cop |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dark | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 rose | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rose | det |
| 18 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 red | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 desire | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 desire | nmod:poss |
| 21 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rose | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 made | cc |
| 24 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 made | aux |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dark | parataxis |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 face | nmod:poss |
| 28 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obj |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 ivory | case |
| 30 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 ivory | amod |
| 31 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 set | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 set | cc |
| 34 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 set | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 set | aux |
| 36 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 made | conj |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 seal | nmod:poss |
| 38 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 set | obj |
| 39 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 41 brow | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 brow | nmod:poss |
| 41 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 set | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dark | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | lover's hair | as the hyacinth blossom; dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | lover's lips | as the rose of lover's desire; red property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | present · perfect · passive | passion | like pale ivory | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary face=Product | ||||
| 4 | set | present · perfect · passive | sorrow | upon lover's brow | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme seal=Destination | ||||
| 5 | desire | lover | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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