The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 89
The sledge was shaped like a great golden swan, and between the swan’s wings lay the little Princess herself.
Who acts: wings · What happens: shape, lay · To what, where: sledge, little Princess
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 (wings), 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 sledge | det |
| 2 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shaped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shaped | aux:pass |
| 4 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 swan | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 swan | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 swan | amod |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 swan | amod |
| 9 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shaped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lay | cc |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 wings | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 swan | det |
| 14 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wings | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 swan | case |
| 16 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shaped | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Princess | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Princess | amod |
| 20 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obj |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 lay | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | past · passive | the sledge | like a great golden swan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | the swan's wings | the little Princess | Princess obl | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Result |
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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