The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 88
She was a Russian Princess, and had driven all the way from Finland in a sledge drawn by six reindeer.
Who acts: bride, Russian Princess · What happens: be, drive, draw · To what, where: Russian Princess, way, Finland, sledge
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, Russian Princess), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Princess | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Princess | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 4 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Princess | amod |
| 5 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 driven | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 driven | cc |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 driven | aux |
| 9 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Princess | acl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 way | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 driven | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Finland | case |
| 14 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 driven | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sledge | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sledge | det |
| 17 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 driven | obl |
| 18 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 sledge | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 reindeer | case |
| 20 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 reindeer | nummod |
| 21 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 drawn | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Princess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | bride | a Russian Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive | past · perfect | a Russian Princess not said here | all way | Finland | in a sledge | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from finland=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | draw | participle | a sledge not said here | by six reindeer | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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