The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 22
It floated through the reeds of the river, and they carried its message to the sea.
Who acts: burst, reeds · What happens: float, carry · To what, where: reeds, message, sea
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 (burst, reeds), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 floated | nsubj |
| 2 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 reeds | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reeds | det |
| 5 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 floated | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reeds | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carried | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carried | nsubj |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 floated | conj |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 message | nmod:poss |
| 14 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 floated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | past | burst | the reeds of the river | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through reed=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | reeds = reed | burst's message | the sea | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to sea=Destination |
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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