The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 69
The only people who were pleased were the Snow and the Frost.
Who acts: only people · What happens: be · To what, where: Snow
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 (only people), 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 | 3 people | det |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Snow | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | cop |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | acl:relcl |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Snow | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Snow | det |
| 9 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Frost | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Frost | det |
| 12 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Snow | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Snow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the only people | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the only people | the Snow and the Frost | 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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