The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 7

So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and louder and louder grew her song, for she sang of the birth of passion in the soul of a man and a maid.

Who acts: Nightingale · What happens: press, grow, sing · To what, where: song, soul

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 (Nightingale), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 pressed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Nightingale	det
3	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pressed	nsubj
4	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 pressed	advmod
6	against	against	ADP	_	8 thorn	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thorn	det
8	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 closer	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 grew	cc
11	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 grew	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 louder	cc
13	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 louder	conj
14	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pressed	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 song	nmod:poss
16	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grew	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sang	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 sang	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sang	nsubj
20	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 grew	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 birth	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 birth	det
23	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sang	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 passion	case
25	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 birth	nmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 soul	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 soul	det
28	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sang	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 man	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 soul	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 maid	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 maid	det
34	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 man	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	press	past	the Nightingale			close property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	grow	past	the Nightingale not said here	Nightingale's song			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
3	sing speech: express	past	Nightingale		the soul of a man and a maid	of the birth of passion	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soul=Location
4	sing		Nightingale				nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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