The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 71
The Snow covered up the grass with her great white cloak, and the Frost painted all the trees silver.
Who acts: Snow · What happens: cover up, paint · To what, where: grass, trees silver
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 (Snow), 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 Snow | det |
| 2 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 painted | nsubj |
| 3 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Snow | acl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 covered | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 grass | det |
| 6 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 covered | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 cloak | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cloak | amod |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cloak | amod |
| 11 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 covered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 painted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 painted | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Frost | det |
| 15 | Frost | Frost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 painted | nsubj |
| 16 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 silver | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 silver | det |
| 19 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 silver | compound |
| 20 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 painted | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover up | participle | the Snow not said here | the grass | with voice's great white cloak | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent grass=Destination with cloak=Theme | |||
| 2 | paint | past | the Snow | all trees silver | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent silver=Destination |
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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