The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 141

He had bright beady eyes and stiff grey whiskers and his tail was like a long bit of black india-rubber.

Who acts: rat, tail · What happens: have, be · To what, where: bright beady eyes

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 (rat, tail), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eyes	amod
4	beady	beady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eyes	amod
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 whiskers	cc
7	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 whiskers	amod
8	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 whiskers	amod
9	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eyes	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bit	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tail	nmod:poss
12	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bit	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bit	cop
14	like	like	ADP	_	17 bit	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bit	det
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bit	amod
17	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eyes	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 rubber	case
19	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rubber	amod
20	india	india	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rubber	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 india	punct
22	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bit	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	rat	bright beady eyes and stiff grey whiskers and a long bit					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	is	past	rat's tail					like a long bit; of black india rubber	tree rules

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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