The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 97

“She was like a white rose before,” said a young Page to his neighbour, “but she is like a red rose now”; and the whole Court was delighted.

Who acts: Princess, white rose, whole Court · What happens: be, say · To what, where: young Page, neighbour · 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, white rose, whole Court), 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past 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 said	nsubj
8	before	before	ADV	_	7 rose	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rose	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 rose	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 Page	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Page	amod
14	Page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 neighbour	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 neighbour	nmod:poss
17	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rose	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 rose	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 rose	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 rose	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 rose	cop
23	like	like	ADP	_	26 rose	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 rose	det
25	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 rose	amod
26	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 rose	advmod
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 rose	punct
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 delighted	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 delighted	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Court	det
32	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Court	amod
33	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 delighted	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 delighted	cop
35	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	Princess				like a white rose; before property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a white rose	a young Page	rose's neighbour			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent page=Topic to neighbour=Recipient
3	is in a quote	present	Princess			now	like a red rose	tree rules
4	is	past	the whole Court				delighted property	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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