The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 133

For on the palms of the child’s hands were the prints of two nails, and the prints of two nails were on the little feet.

Who acts: prints · What happens: be, print · To what, where: prints, little feet, two nails

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 (prints), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 palms	case
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 palms	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 palms	det
4	palms	palm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 hands	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hands	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 child	case
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 prints	obl
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 prints	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prints	det
12	prints	print	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 palms	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 nails	case
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 nails	nummod
15	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 prints	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 feet	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 feet	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 prints	det
19	prints	print	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 feet	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 nails	case
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 nails	nummod
22	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 prints	nmod
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 feet	cop
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 feet	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 feet	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 feet	amod
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 palms	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 palms	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the prints		of the child's hands; of two nails	tree rules
2	is	past	the prints of two nails		the little feet		tree rules
3	print			two nails			nom print «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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