The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 66
Only in the garden of the Selfish Giant it was still winter.
Who acts: country · What happens: be · To what, where: winter
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 (country), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 garden | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 garden | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 garden | det |
| 4 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 Giant | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Giant | det |
| 7 | Selfish | Selfish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Giant | compound |
| 8 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 garden | acl:relcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 winter | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 winter | cop |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 winter | advmod |
| 12 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Giant | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 garden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | country | winter | still | tree rules |
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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