The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 5
But the Tree cried to the Nightingale to press closer against the thorn.
Who acts: Tree · What happens: cry, press · To what, where: Nightingale
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 cried | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tree | det |
| 3 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Nightingale | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Nightingale | det |
| 7 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 press | mark |
| 9 | press | press | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | advcl |
| 10 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 press | advmod |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 thorn | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thorn | det |
| 13 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 press | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the Tree | the Nightingale | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to nightingale=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | press | to-infinitive | the Tree not said here | against the thorn; close property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against thorn=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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