The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 92

They danced so beautifully that the tall white lilies peeped in at the window and watched them, and the great red poppies nodded their heads and beat time.

Who acts: Princes, tall white lilies, great red poppies · What happens: dance, peep in, watch, nod, beat · To what, where: Princes, heads

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 (Princes, tall white lilies, great red poppies), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 danced	nsubj
2	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 beautifully	advmod
4	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	2 danced	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 peeped	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lilies	det
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lilies	amod
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lilies	amod
9	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 peeped	nsubj
10	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 danced	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	10 peeped	compound:prt
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 window	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 window	det
14	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 peeped	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 watched	cc
16	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 peeped	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 watched	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 nodded	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 nodded	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 poppies	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 poppies	amod
22	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 poppies	amod
23	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 nodded	nsubj
24	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 danced	parataxis
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 heads	nmod:poss
26	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 nodded	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 beat	cc
28	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 nodded	conj
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 beat	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past	Princes = prince			beautifully property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	peep in	past	the tall white lilies			at the window	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme
3	watch	past	the tall white lilies not said here	Princes = prince			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	nod	past	the great red poppies	Princes's heads			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	beat	present	the great red poppies not said here		time		vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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