The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 15
Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart.
Who acts: Crimson, ruby · What happens: be · To what, where: girdle
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 (Crimson, ruby), 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 | Crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girdle | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 girdle | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girdle | det |
| 4 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 petals | case |
| 6 | petals | petal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 girdle | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 crimson | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 crimson | cc |
| 9 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girdle | conj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ruby | det |
| 12 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heart | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 heart | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heart | det |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crimson | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 girdle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Crimson | the girdle and crimson | of petals | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | a ruby | as the heart | 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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