The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 153
Good-bye a second time; I see my daughters in the distance:” and the little Frog swam away.
Who acts: I, little Frog · What happens: see, swim away · To what, where: daughters · 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 (I, 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 bye | punct |
| 3 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 1 Good | flat |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bye | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Good | conj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 11 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 distance | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 distance | det |
| 14 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 ” | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 distance | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 swam | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Frog | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Frog | amod |
| 20 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 swam | nsubj |
| 21 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 distance | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 swam | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | my daughters | in the distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | swim away in a quote | past | the little Frog | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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