The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 3
The bride and bridegroom, for instance, love each other very dearly.
Who acts: bride · What happens: love · To what, where: each
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 (bride), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bride | det |
| 2 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 love | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bridegroom | cc |
| 4 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bride | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 instance | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 instance | case |
| 7 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bride | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 bride | punct |
| 9 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 9 love | obj |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 each | fixed |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 dearly | advmod |
| 13 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 9 love | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | the bride and bridegroom and instance | each | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/3/