The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 128
In the farthest corner of the garden was a tree quite covered with lovely white blossoms.
What happens: be, cover · To what, where: tree, farthest corner
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 corner | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 corner | det |
| 3 | farthest | far | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 corner | amod |
| 4 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garden | det |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 corner | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tree | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 covered | advmod |
| 12 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 tree | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 blossoms | case |
| 14 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 blossoms | amod |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 blossoms | amod |
| 16 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 covered | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a tree | the farthest corner of the garden | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | a tree not said here | with lovely white blossoms | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blossom=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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