The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 103
The Prince and Princess sat at the top of the Great Hall and drank out of a cup of clear crystal.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: sit, drink out · To what, where: top, cup
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 (Prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Princess | cc |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | conj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 top | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 top | det |
| 8 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Hall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Hall | det |
| 11 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Hall | amod |
| 12 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 top | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drank | cc |
| 14 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 cup | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cup | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cup | det |
| 18 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drank | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 crystal | case |
| 20 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 crystal | amod |
| 21 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cup | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the Prince and Princess | the top of the Great Hall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at top=Location | ||||
| 2 | drink out | past | the Prince and Princess not said here | a cup of clear crystal | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=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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