The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 120
BAD and GRAND sound very much the same, indeed they often are the same”; and he fell into the mud.
Who acts: BAD, poppies, Rocket · What happens: sound, be, fall · To what, where: mud · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (BAD, poppies, Rocket), 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 | BAD | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sound | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 GRAND | cc |
| 3 | GRAND | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 BAD | conj |
| 4 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 same | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 same | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sound | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 same | punct |
| 10 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 15 same | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 same | nsubj |
| 12 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 same | advmod |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 same | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 same | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sound | parataxis |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 same | punct |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 fell | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fell | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sound | parataxis |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 mud | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mud | det |
| 23 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | BAD | same property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | poppies = poppy | indeed, often, same property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall in a quote | past | Rocket | into the mud result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into mud=Result |
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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