The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 12
So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and the thorn touched her heart, and a fierce pang of pain shot through her.
Who acts: Nightingale, thorn, fierce pang · What happens: press, touch, shoot · 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 (Nightingale, thorn, fierce pang), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 pressed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Nightingale | det |
| 3 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pressed | nsubj |
| 4 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 pressed | advmod |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 thorn | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thorn | det |
| 8 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 closer | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 touched | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 touched | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thorn | det |
| 12 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 touched | nsubj |
| 13 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pressed | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 touched | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shot | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shot | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pang | det |
| 19 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pang | amod |
| 20 | pang | pang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shot | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 pain | case |
| 22 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pang | nmod |
| 23 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pressed | conj |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 shot | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | past | the Nightingale | close property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | touch | past | the thorn | Nightingale's heart | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | shoot | past | a fierce pang of pain | through Nightingale | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent through she=Destination |
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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