The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 87
But the Nightingale understood the secret of the Student’s sorrow, and she sat silent in the oak-tree, and thought about the mystery of Love.
Who acts: Nightingale, Lizard, Student · What happens: understand, sit, think, sorrow · To what, where: secret, oak tree
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 (Nightingale, Lizard, Student), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 understood | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Nightingale | det |
| 3 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 understood | nsubj |
| 4 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 secret | det |
| 6 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 understood | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sorrow | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Student | det |
| 9 | Student | Student | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Student | case |
| 11 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 secret | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sat | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sat | nsubj |
| 15 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 understood | parataxis |
| 16 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sat | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 19 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tree | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 oak | punct |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sat | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thought | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 thought | cc |
| 24 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sat | conj |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 mystery | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 mystery | det |
| 27 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thought | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Love | case |
| 29 | Love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mystery | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | the Nightingale | the secret of the Student's sorrow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | Lizard | the oak tree | silent property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Lizard not said here | about the mystery of Love | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about mystery=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sorrow | the Student | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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