The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 101
It was a magnificent ceremony, and the bride and bridegroom walked hand in hand under a canopy of purple velvet embroidered with little pearls.
Who acts: marriage, bride · What happens: be, walk, embroider · To what, where: magnificent ceremony, hand, purple velvet
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage, bride), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ceremony | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ceremony | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ceremony | det |
| 4 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ceremony | amod |
| 5 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 walked | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bride | det |
| 9 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bridegroom | cc |
| 11 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bride | conj |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ceremony | acl:relcl |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | obl |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 canopy | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 canopy | det |
| 18 | canopy | canopy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 velvet | case |
| 20 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 velvet | amod |
| 21 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 canopy | nmod |
| 22 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 velvet | acl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 pearls | case |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pearls | amod |
| 25 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 embroidered | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ceremony | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | marriage | a magnificent ceremony | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | the bride and bridegroom | hand | hand | under a canopy of purple velvet | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in hand=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | embroider | participle | purple velvet not said here | with little pearls | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=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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