The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 23

“Look, look!” cried the Tree, “the rose is finished now”; but the Nightingale made no answer, for she was lying dead in the long grass, with the thorn in her heart.

Who acts: Tree, Nightingale · What happens: look, cry, finish, make, lie · To what, where: rose, answer, long grass · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Tree, Nightingale), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Look	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Tree	det
9	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 finished	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 finished	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rose	det
13	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 finished	nsubj:pass
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 finished	aux:pass
15	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cried	advcl
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 finished	advmod
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 finished	punct
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Nightingale	det
21	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	parataxis
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 answer	det
24	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lying	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 lying	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lying	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 lying	aux
29	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 made	advcl
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lying	xcomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 grass	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 grass	det
33	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 grass	amod
34	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lying	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 thorn	punct
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 thorn	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 thorn	det
38	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lying	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 heart	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 heart	nmod:poss
41	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 thorn	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	infinitive						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	look in a quote	infinitive						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	cry speech: express	past	the Tree					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	finish in a quote	present · passive		the rose		now		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
5	make	past	the Nightingale	no answer				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product
6	lie	past · progressive	Nightingale		the long grass		with the thorn in Nightingale's heart; dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=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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