The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 104
“It is curious,” he remarked, “but I feel quite warm now, although it is so cold.”
Who acts: seamstress, Swallow · What happens: be, remark, feel · 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 (seamstress, Swallow), 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 | _ | 4 curious | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 curious | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 curious | cop |
| 4 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 remarked | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 curious | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 curious | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 remarked | nsubj |
| 8 | remarked | remark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feel | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 feel | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 feel | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 feel | nsubj |
| 13 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 remarked | parataxis |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 warm | advmod |
| 15 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feel | xcomp |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 feel | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cold | punct |
| 18 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 22 cold | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 cold | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 cold | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 cold | advmod |
| 22 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feel | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 remarked | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 remarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | seamstress | curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | past | Swallow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | feel in a quote | present | Swallow | now | warm property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | seamstress | cold property | tree rules |
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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