The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 4
As the shadow of a rose in a mirror of silver, as the shadow of a rose in a water-pool, so was the rose that blossomed on the topmost spray of the Tree.
Who acts: rose · What happens: be, blossom, shadow · To what, where: rose, topmost spray
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 (rose), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 shadow | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shadow | det |
| 3 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 rose | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rose | det |
| 6 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shadow | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mirror | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mirror | det |
| 9 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 silver | case |
| 11 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mirror | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shadow | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 shadow | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shadow | det |
| 15 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shadow | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 rose | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 rose | det |
| 18 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shadow | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 pool | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pool | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pool | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 water | punct |
| 23 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rose | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 rose | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 rose | advmod |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 rose | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 rose | det |
| 28 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shadow | conj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 blossomed | nsubj |
| 30 | blossomed | blossom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 rose | acl:relcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 spray | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 spray | det |
| 33 | topmost | topmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 spray | amod |
| 34 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 blossomed | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Tree | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Tree | det |
| 37 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 spray | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shadow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the rose | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | blossom | past | the rose | the topmost spray of the Tree | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on spray=Location | ||||
| 3 | shadow | a rose in a mirror of silver | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | shadow | a rose in a water pool | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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