The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 102
“How cool I feel,” said the boy, “I must be getting better”; and he sank into a delicious slumber.
Who acts: boy · What happens: feel, say, get, sink · To what, where: delicious slumber · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 cool | advmod |
| 3 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feel | xcomp |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 getting | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 getting | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 getting | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 getting | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 getting | aux |
| 16 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 getting | xcomp |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 getting | punct |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 sank | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sank | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sank | nsubj |
| 22 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 slumber | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 slumber | det |
| 25 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 slumber | amod |
| 26 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sank | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel in a quote | present | the boy = boy | cool property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | must · progressive | the boy = boy | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | sink | past | boy | a delicious slumber | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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