The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 98

“My roses are yellow,” it answered; “as yellow as the hair of the mermaiden who sits upon an amber throne, and yellower than the daffodil that blooms in the meadow before the mower comes with his scythe.

Who acts: roses, tree, mermaiden, daffodil, mower · What happens: be, answer, sit, bloom, come · To what, where: amber throne, meadow · 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, tree, mermaiden, daffodil), 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 yellow	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 yellow	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 yellow	cop
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 yellow	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 yellow	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=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 yellow	parataxis
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 yellow	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 yellow	punct
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 yellow	advmod
13	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 yellow	conj
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 hair	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hair	det
16	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 yellow	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 mermaiden	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mermaiden	det
19	mermaiden	mermaiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hair	nmod
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 sits	nsubj
21	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 mermaiden	acl:relcl
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 throne	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 throne	det
24	amber	amber	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 throne	compound
25	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sits	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 yellower	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 yellower	cc
28	yellower	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 yellow	conj
29	than	than	ADP	_	31 daffodil	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 daffodil	det
31	daffodil	daffodil	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 yellower	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 blooms	nsubj
33	blooms	bloom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 daffodil	acl:relcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 meadow	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 meadow	det
36	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 blooms	obl
37	before	before	SCONJ	_	40 comes	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 mower	det
39	mower	mower	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 comes	nsubj
40	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 blooms	advcl
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 scythe	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 scythe	nmod:poss
43	scythe	scythe	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 comes	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 yellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	My roses		yellow property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	tree			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be in a quote		My roses not said here		as the hair of the mermaiden	tree rules
4	sit in a quote	present	the mermaiden	a amber throne		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon throne=Location
5	bloom in a quote	present	the daffodil	the meadow		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meadow=Location
6	come in a quote	present	the mower		with Rose's scythe	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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