The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 9

But the thorn had not yet reached her heart, so the rose’s heart remained white, for only a Nightingale’s heart’s-blood can crimson the heart of a rose.

Who acts: thorn, heart, Nightingale heart’s · What happens: not reach, remain, crimson · To what, where: heart

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 (thorn, heart, Nightingale heart’s), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 reached	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thorn	det
3	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reached	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 reached	advmod
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	7 reached	advmod
7	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heart	nmod:poss
9	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 remained	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	16 remained	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rose	det
13	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heart	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 rose	case
15	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 remained	nsubj
16	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reached	conj
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 remained	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 heart’s	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	24 heart’s	case
20	only	only	ADV	_	22 Nightingale	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Nightingale	det
22	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 heart’s	compound
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 Nightingale	case
24	heart’s	heart'	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 crimson	nsubj
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 blood	punct
26	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heart’s	conj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 crimson	aux
28	crimson	crimson	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 remained	ccomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 heart	det
30	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 crimson	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 rose	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 rose	det
33	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 heart	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	past	the thorn	thorn's heart	yet		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent heart=Theme
2	remain	past	the rose's heart			white property	tree rules
3	crimson	can	Nightingale heart’s and blood	the heart of a rose			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient

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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