The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 77
He was dressed in grey, and his breath was like ice.
Who acts: breath · What happens: dress, be · To what, where: Hail, grey
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 (breath), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | aux:pass |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 grey | case |
| 5 | grey | grey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dressed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ice | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ice | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 breath | nmod:poss |
| 9 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ice | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ice | cop |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 ice | case |
| 12 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dressed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | Hail | grey | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Hail's breath | like ice | 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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