The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 108
The bride and bridegroom were to dance the Rose-dance together, and the King had promised to play the flute.
Who acts: bride, King · What happens: dance, promise, play · To what, where: Rose dance, flute
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 (bride, King), 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 bride | det |
| 2 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dance | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bridegroom | cc |
| 4 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bride | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dance | aux |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 dance | mark |
| 7 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dance | det |
| 9 | Rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dance | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Rose | punct |
| 11 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dance | obj |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 dance | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 promised | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 promised | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 promised | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 promised | aux |
| 18 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 dance | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 play | mark |
| 20 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 promised | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 flute | det |
| 22 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 play | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | the bride and bridegroom | the Rose dance | together property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dance=Theme | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | the King | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King not said here | the flute | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=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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