The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 80

How lovely your primroses are looking, by-the-bye!”

Who acts: lovely primroses · What happens: look

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 (lovely primroses), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 lovely	advmod
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 primroses	amod
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 primroses	nmod:poss
4	primroses	primrose	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 looking	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 looking	aux
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bye	punct
8	by	by	ADP	_	12 bye	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 by	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bye	det
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 the	punct
12	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looking	obl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 looking	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · progressive	your lovely primroses					by the bye	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by bye=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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