The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 93
“My roses are white,” it answered; “as white as the foam of the sea, and whiter than the snow upon the mountain.
Who acts: roses, white · What happens: be, answer · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (roses, white), 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 | _ | 5 white | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 roses | nmod:poss |
| 3 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 white | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 white | cop |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 white | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 white | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 white | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 white | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 white | advmod |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 foam | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 foam | det |
| 16 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 white | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 foam | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 whiter | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 whiter | cc |
| 22 | whiter | white | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 white | conj |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 snow | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 snow | det |
| 25 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 whiter | obl |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 mountain | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mountain | det |
| 28 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 whiter | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | My roses | white property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | white | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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