The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 2
And on the top-most spray of the Rose-tree there blossomed a marvellous rose, petal following petal, as song followed song.
Who acts: song · What happens: blossom, follow · To what, where: marvellous rose, top most spray, song
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 (song), 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 | _ | 14 blossomed | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 spray | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spray | det |
| 4 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spray | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 top | punct |
| 6 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 spray | amod |
| 7 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blossomed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 10 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Rose | punct |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spray | nmod |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 blossomed | advmod |
| 14 | blossomed | blossom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 rose | det |
| 16 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rose | amod |
| 17 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blossomed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 petal | punct |
| 19 | petal | petal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rose | conj |
| 20 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 petal | case |
| 21 | petal | petal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rose | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 followed | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 followed | mark |
| 24 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 followed | nsubj |
| 25 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 blossomed | conj |
| 26 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 followed | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 blossomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blossom | past | a marvellous rose and petal | the top most spray of the Rose tree; there | follow petal | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location rose=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | follow | past | song | song | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme |
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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