The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 125
He did not hate the Winter now, for he knew that it was merely the Spring asleep, and that the flowers were resting.
Who acts: Giant, window, flowers · What happens: not hate, know, be, rest · To what, where: Winter
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 (Giant, window, flowers), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hate | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hate | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hate | advmod |
| 4 | hate | hate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Winter | det |
| 6 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hate | obj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hate | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 knew | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hate | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 asleep | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 asleep | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 asleep | cop |
| 15 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 18 asleep | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Spring | det |
| 17 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asleep | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 knew | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 resting | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 resting | cc |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 resting | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 flowers | det |
| 23 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 resting | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 resting | aux |
| 25 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 hate | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hate | past · do-support | Giant | the Winter | now | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer winter=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | know | past | Giant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | window | spring | asleep, merely property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | rest | past · progressive | the flowers | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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