The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 20
The red rose heard it, and it trembled all over with ecstasy, and opened its petals to the cold morning air.
Who acts: red rose, burst · What happens: hear, tremble, open · To what, where: burst, petals, cold morning air
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 (red rose, burst), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rose | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rose | amod |
| 3 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 trembled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 trembled | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 trembled | nsubj |
| 9 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 over | advmod |
| 11 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 trembled | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 ecstasy | case |
| 13 | ecstasy | ecstasy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trembled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 opened | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 opened | cc |
| 16 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | parataxis |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 petals | nmod:poss |
| 18 | petals | petal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 opened | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 air | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 air | det |
| 21 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 air | amod |
| 22 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 air | compound |
| 23 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 opened | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the red rose | burst | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tremble | past | burst | with ecstasy; over property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | open | past | burst's petals | the cold morning air | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent petal=Patient to air=Recipient |
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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