The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 123
Then a little Frog, with bright jewelled eyes, and a green mottled coat, swam up to him.
Who acts: little Frog · What happens: jewell, mottle, swim up · To what, where: Rocket
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 (little Frog), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 swam | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Frog | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Frog | amod |
| 4 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 swam | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eyes | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 7 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 8 | jewelled | jewell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Frog | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 coat | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 coat | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 coat | det |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 coat | amod |
| 14 | mottled | mottle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 coat | amod |
| 15 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Frog | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Frog | punct |
| 17 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 swam | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 swam | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jewell | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | mottle | participle | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | swim up | past | a little Frog and bright jewelled eyes and a green mottled coat | Rocket | then | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to he=Destination |
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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