The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 23
My mother was the most celebrated Catherine Wheel of her day, and was renowned for her graceful dancing.
Who acts: mother, Wheel · What happens: celebrate, be, dance · To what, where: celebrated Catherine Wheel
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 (mother, Wheel), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Wheel | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Wheel | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Wheel | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 celebrated | advmod |
| 6 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Wheel | amod |
| 7 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Wheel | compound |
| 8 | Wheel | Wheel | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 day | nmod:poss |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Wheel | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 renowned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 renowned | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 renowned | cop |
| 15 | renowned | renowned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Wheel | amod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 dancing | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 dancing | nmod:poss |
| 18 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dancing | amod |
| 19 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 renowned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Wheel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | My mother | the celebrated Catherine Wheel | day | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | for Wheel's graceful dancing; renowned property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | dance | Wheel | nom dancing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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