The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 104
Only true lovers could drink out of this cup, for if false lips touched it, it grew grey and dull and cloudy.
Who acts: true lovers, false lips, cup · What happens: drink out, touch, grow · To what, where: 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 (true lovers, false lips, cup), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 lovers | advmod |
| 2 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lovers | amod |
| 3 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 drink | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 drink | aux |
| 5 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 cup | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cup | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 cup | det |
| 9 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drink | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 touched | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 touched | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 touched | mark |
| 13 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lips | amod |
| 14 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 touched | nsubj |
| 15 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drink | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 touched | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grew | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 grew | nsubj |
| 19 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 touched | conj |
| 20 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 grew | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dull | cc |
| 22 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grey | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cloudy | cc |
| 24 | cloudy | cloudy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grey | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink out | could | true lovers | this cup | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient | ||||
| 2 | touch a condition, not said to happen | past | false lips | cup | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | cup | grey property | 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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