The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 90
Her long ermine-cloak reached right down to her feet, on her head was a tiny cap of silver tissue, and she was as pale as the Snow Palace in which she had always lived.
Who acts: long ermine cloak, head, Princess · What happens: reach, be, live · To what, where: feet, tiny cap, Snow Palace
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 (long ermine cloak, head, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cloak | amod |
| 3 | ermine | ermine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cloak | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ermine | punct |
| 5 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | right | right | ADV | _ | 8 down | advmod |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 reached | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cap | punct |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 cap | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cap | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 cap | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cap | det |
| 18 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cap | amod |
| 19 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tissue | case |
| 21 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tissue | compound |
| 22 | tissue | tissue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cap | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pale | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 pale | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pale | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 pale | cop |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 pale | advmod |
| 28 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 reached | conj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 Palace | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Palace | det |
| 31 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Palace | compound |
| 32 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 pale | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 which | case |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 lived | obl |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 lived | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 lived | aux |
| 37 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 38 lived | advmod |
| 38 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 Palace | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Princess's long ermine cloak | Princess's feet | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent down foot=Path | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Princess's head | a tiny cap | of silver tissue | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | Princess | as the Snow Palace; pale property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | past · perfect | Princess | the Snow Palace | always property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
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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