The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 14
And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky.
Who acts: marvellous rose · What happens: become · To what, where: crimson
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 (marvellous rose), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 became | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rose | det |
| 3 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rose | amod |
| 4 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rose | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 rose | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rose | det |
| 10 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sky | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sky | det |
| 13 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sky | amod |
| 14 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rose | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the marvellous rose | crimson | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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