The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 26
Sweet-william grew there, and Gilly-flowers, and Shepherds’-purses, and Fair-maids of France.
Who acts: Sweet william · What happens: grow · To what, where: Gilly flowers
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sweet william), 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 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 william | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sweet | punct |
| 3 | william | william | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 grew | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flowers | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 flowers | cc |
| 8 | Gilly | Gilly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 flowers | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Gilly | punct |
| 10 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 purses | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 purses | cc |
| 13 | Shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 purses | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 13 Shepherds | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 ’ | punct |
| 16 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 maids | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 maids | cc |
| 19 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 maids | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Fair | punct |
| 21 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 France | case |
| 23 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 maids | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Sweet william | Gilly flowers | there | Shepherds's purses obl; Fair maids of France obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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