The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 102
“Good-bye,” cried the Fire-balloon, as he soared away, dropping tiny blue sparks.
Who acts: Fire balloon, balloon · What happens: cry, soar away, drop · To what, where: tiny blue sparks
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fire balloon, balloon), 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cried | advmod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 bye | punct |
| 4 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 2 Good | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 balloon | det |
| 9 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 balloon | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Fire | punct |
| 11 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 soared | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 soared | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 soared | nsubj |
| 15 | soared | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 soared | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dropping | punct |
| 18 | dropping | drop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 soared | advcl |
| 19 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sparks | amod |
| 20 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sparks | amod |
| 21 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dropping | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the Fire balloon | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | soar away | past | balloon | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | drop | gerund | balloon not said here | tiny blue sparks | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spark=Theme |
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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