The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 1
She sang first of the birth of love in the heart of a boy and a girl.
Who acts: She · What happens: sing · To what, where: heart
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (She), 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 sang | nsubj |
| 2 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 sang | advmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 birth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 birth | det |
| 6 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sang | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 love | case |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 birth | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 heart | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heart | det |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sang | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 boy | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heart | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 girl | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 boy | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | She | the heart of a boy and a girl | of the birth of love; first property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location |
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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