The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 92
“She is like a white rose!” they cried, and they threw down flowers on her from the balconies.
Who acts: Princess, people · What happens: be, cry, throw down · To what, where: flowers, balconies · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Princess, people), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 rose | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 rose | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rose | det |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rose | amod |
| 7 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 threw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 threw | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 threw | nsubj |
| 15 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 threw | compound:prt |
| 17 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 threw | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 threw | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 balconies | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 balconies | det |
| 22 | balconies | balcony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 threw | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Princess | like a white rose | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | people | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | throw down | past | people | flowers | the balconies | tree rules |
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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