The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 27
There were damask Roses, and yellow Roses, lilac Crocuses, and gold, purple Violets and white.
Who acts: damask Roses · What happens: be
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 (damask Roses), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | damask | damask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Roses | compound |
| 4 | Roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Roses | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Roses | cc |
| 7 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Roses | amod |
| 8 | Roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Roses | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Crocuses | punct |
| 10 | lilac | lilac | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Crocuses | amod |
| 11 | Crocuses | crocus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Roses | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gold | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gold | cc |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Violets | punct |
| 16 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Violets | amod |
| 17 | Violets | violet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gold | appos |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 white | cc |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Violets | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | damask Roses and yellow Roses and lilac Crocuses | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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