The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 25
She was three feet and a half in diameter, and made of the very best gunpowder.
Who acts: Wheel · What happens: be, make · To what, where: three feet
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 feet | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 feet | cop |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 feet | nummod |
| 4 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 half | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 half | det |
| 7 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 feet | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 diameter | case |
| 9 | diameter | diameter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 half | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 feet | acl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gunpowder | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gunpowder | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 best | advmod |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 gunpowder | amod |
| 17 | gunpowder | gunpowder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Wheel | three feet and a half in diameter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | three feet and a half in diameter not said here | of the best gunpowder | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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