The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 109
“What a remarkable phenomenon,” said the Professor of Ornithology as he was passing over the bridge.
Who acts: remarkable phenomenon, Professor · What happens: say, pass · To what, where: bridge · 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 (remarkable phenomenon, Professor), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 phenomenon | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 phenomenon | det |
| 4 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 phenomenon | amod |
| 5 | phenomenon | phenomenon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 phenomenon | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 phenomenon | 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 Professor | det |
| 10 | Professor | Professor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Ornithology | case |
| 12 | Ornithology | ornithology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Professor | nmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 passing | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 passing | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 passing | aux |
| 16 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 bridge | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bridge | det |
| 19 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 passing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | what remarkable phenomenon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pass | past · progressive | Professor | the bridge | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over bridge=Location |
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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