The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 82
So it was always Winter there, and the North Wind, and the Hail, and the Frost, and the Snow danced about through the trees.
Who acts: fruit, Snow · What happens: be, dance · To what, where: trees
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 (fruit, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 there | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 there | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 there | advmod |
| 5 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 there | nsubj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Wind | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Wind | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Wind | det |
| 10 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Wind | compound |
| 11 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 there | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hail | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Hail | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Hail | det |
| 15 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Wind | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Frost | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Frost | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Frost | det |
| 19 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Wind | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 danced | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 danced | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Snow | det |
| 23 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 danced | nsubj |
| 24 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | parataxis |
| 25 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 danced | advmod |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 trees | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 trees | det |
| 28 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 danced | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | fruit | the North Wind and the Frost obl; always, there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dance | past | the Snow | the trees | about property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Location |
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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