The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 96
“Your picture was beautiful,” he murmured, “but you are more beautiful than your picture”; and the little Princess blushed.
Who acts: picture, beautiful, you, little Princess · What happens: be, murmur, blush · 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 (picture, beautiful, you, little 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 picture | nmod:poss |
| 3 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beautiful | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | cop |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 murmured | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 murmured | nsubj |
| 9 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beautiful | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 beautiful | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 beautiful | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 beautiful | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 beautiful | cop |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 beautiful | advmod |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 murmured | parataxis |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 picture | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 picture | nmod:poss |
| 19 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beautiful | obl |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 beautiful | punct |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 blushed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 blushed | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Princess | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Princess | amod |
| 25 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 blushed | nsubj |
| 26 | blushed | blush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 murmured | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 murmured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | Your picture | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | past | beautiful | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | than your picture; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | blush | past | the little Princess | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «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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