The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 7
She had yellow legs, and webbed feet, and was considered a great beauty on account of her waddle.
Who acts: Duck · What happens: have, web, consider, waddle · To what, where: yellow legs, great beauty
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duck), 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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 legs | amod |
| 4 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 feet | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 feet | cc |
| 7 | webbed | web | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 feet | amod |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 legs | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 considered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 considered | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 considered | aux:pass |
| 12 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 beauty | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beauty | amod |
| 15 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 considered | xcomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 account | case |
| 17 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beauty | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 waddle | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 waddle | nmod:poss |
| 20 | waddle | waddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beauty | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Duck | yellow legs and webbed feet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 2 | web | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | consider | past · passive | Duck not said here | a great beauty on account of Duck's waddle | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S» | ||||
| 4 | waddle | Duck | nom waddle «act intransitive»: 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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