The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 119
“I am waited for in Egypt,” answered the Swallow.
Who acts: Swallow · What happens: wait, answer · To what, where: Swallow · 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 (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 waited | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | aux:pass |
| 4 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Egypt | case |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Egypt | case |
| 7 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 waited | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Swallow | det |
| 12 | Swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | present · passive | the Swallow = swallow | for Egypt | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Swallow | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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