The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 111
And he wrote a long letter about it to the local newspaper.
Who acts: Swallow · What happens: write · To what, where: long letter, local newspaper
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 wrote | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrote | nsubj |
| 3 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 letter | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 letter | amod |
| 6 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 letter | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 newspaper | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 newspaper | det |
| 11 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 newspaper | amod |
| 12 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Swallow | a long letter | the local newspaper | about letter | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to newspaper=Recipient |
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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