The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 94
He had dreamy violet eyes, and his hair was like fine gold.
Who acts: sledge, hair · What happens: have, be · To what, where: dreamy violet eyes
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 (sledge, hair), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dreamy | dreamy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 4 | violet | violet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eyes | compound |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gold | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gold | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hair | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gold | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gold | cop |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gold | amod |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | sledge | dreamy violet eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | sledge's hair | like fine gold | 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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