The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 16
But the Nightingale’s voice grew fainter, and her little wings began to beat, and a film came over her eyes.
Who acts: voice, little wings, film · What happens: grow, begin, beat, come · To what, where: 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 (voice, little wings, film), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 grew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Nightingale | det |
| 3 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 voice | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Nightingale | case |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | nsubj |
| 6 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | fainter | faint | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 grew | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 began | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wings | nmod:poss |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wings | amod |
| 12 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 began | nsubj |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grew | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 beat | mark |
| 15 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 film | det |
| 19 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grew | conj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the Nightingale's voice | faint property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | voice's little wings | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | beat | to-infinitive | voice's little wings not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past | a film | voice's eyes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over eye=Initial_Location |
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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