The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 17
Fainter and fainter grew her song, and she felt something choking her in her throat.
Who acts: Fainter, voice · What happens: grow, feel, choke, sing · To what, where: song, something, voice, throat
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 (Fainter, voice), 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 | Fainter | faint | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fainter | cc |
| 3 | fainter | faint | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Fainter | conj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 song | nmod:poss |
| 6 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 felt | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 felt | obj |
| 12 | choking | choke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 something | acl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 choking | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 throat | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 throat | nmod:poss |
| 16 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 choking | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Fainter | voice's song | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | voice | something | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 3 | choke | gerund | voice | voice's throat | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Destination | ||||
| 4 | sing | voice | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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