The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 80
She will dance so lightly that her feet will not touch the floor, and the courtiers in their gay dresses will throng round her.
Who acts: love, feet, courtiers · What happens: dance, not touch, throng · To what, where: floor
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 (love, feet, courtiers), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dance | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 dance | aux |
| 3 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 lightly | advmod |
| 5 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 3 dance | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 touch | mark |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 feet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 touch | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 touch | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 touch | advmod |
| 11 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dance | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 floor | det |
| 13 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 touch | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 throng | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 throng | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 courtiers | det |
| 17 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 throng | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 dresses | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 dresses | nmod:poss |
| 20 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dresses | amod |
| 21 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 courtiers | nmod |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 throng | aux |
| 23 | throng | throng | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dance | conj |
| 24 | round | round | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 throng | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | future | love | lightly property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not touch | future | love's feet | the floor | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | throng | future | the courtiers in courtiers's gay dresses | round love | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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