The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 67

The birds did not care to sing in it as there were no children, and the trees forgot to blossom.

Who acts: birds, children, trees · What happens: not care, sing, be, forget, not blossom · To what, where: country

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 (birds, children, trees), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 care	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 care	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 care	advmod
5	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sing	mark
7	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 care	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sing	obl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 were	mark
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 were	expl
12	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sing	advcl
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 children	det
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 were	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 forgot	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 forgot	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trees	det
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 forgot	nsubj
19	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 care	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 blossom	mark
21	blossom	blossom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 forgot	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	not care	past · do-support	the birds		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	the birds not said here	country	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location
3	be	past	no children	there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	forget	past	the trees		tree rules
5	not blossom	to-infinitive	the trees not said here		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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