The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 13

Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder grew her song, for she sang of the Love that is perfected by Death, of the Love that dies not in the tomb.

Who acts: Bitter, wilder, Nightingale, Death, Love · What happens: be, grow, sing, perfect, not die · To what, where: pain, song, Love

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 (Bitter, wilder, Nightingale, Death), 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	Bitter	bitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pain	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bitter	punct
3	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Bitter	amod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pain	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pain	det
6	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grew	cc
9	wilder	wild	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 grew	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wilder	cc
11	wilder	wild	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 wilder	conj
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pain	parataxis
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 song	nmod:poss
14	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grew	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sang	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 sang	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sang	nsubj
18	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grew	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Love	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Love	det
21	Love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sang	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 perfected	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 perfected	aux:pass
24	perfected	perfect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 Love	acl:relcl
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 Death	case
26	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 perfected	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Love	punct
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Love	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Love	det
30	Love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sang	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 dies	nsubj
32	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 Love	acl:relcl
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 dies	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 tomb	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 tomb	det
36	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dies	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bitter	the pain		tree rules
2	grow	past	wilder	Nightingale's song		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
3	sing speech: express	past	Nightingale		of the Love; of the Love	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	perfect	present · passive	Death	the Love		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
5	not die	present	the Love		in the tomb	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tomb=Attribute
6	sing		Nightingale			nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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