The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 89

She passed through the grove like a shadow, and like a shadow she sailed across the garden.

Who acts: Lizard · What happens: pass, sail · To what, where: grove, garden

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 (Lizard), 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	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 grove	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grove	det
5	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 shadow	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shadow	det
8	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sailed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sailed	cc
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 shadow	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 shadow	det
13	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sailed	obl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sailed	nsubj
15	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
16	across	across	ADP	_	18 garden	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 garden	det
18	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sailed	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	Lizard			the grove		like a shadow	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through grove=Location
2	sail	past	Lizard			the garden		like a shadow	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across garden=Trajectory

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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