The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 8
And a delicate flush of pink came into the leaves of the rose, like the flush in the face of the bridegroom when he kisses the lips of the bride.
Who acts: delicate flush, flush · What happens: come, kiss · To what, where: leaves, lips
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 (delicate flush, flush), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 flush | det |
| 3 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 flush | amod |
| 4 | flush | flush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pink | case |
| 6 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 flush | nmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 leaves | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 leaves | det |
| 10 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 rose | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rose | det |
| 13 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaves | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flush | punct |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 flush | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 flush | det |
| 17 | flush | flush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 face | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 face | det |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flush | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 bridegroom | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bridegroom | det |
| 23 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 face | nmod |
| 24 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 26 kisses | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 kisses | nsubj |
| 26 | kisses | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lips | det |
| 28 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 kisses | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 bride | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bride | det |
| 31 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lips | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a delicate flush of pink | the leaves of the rose | like the flush in the face of the bridegroom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into leaf=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | kiss | present | flush | the lips of the bride | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Co-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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/8/