The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 125
“Swallow, Swallow, little Swallow,” said the Prince, “far away across the city I see a young man in a garret.
Who acts: Swallow · What happens: say, see · To what, where: young man, garret · 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 | _ | 2 Swallow | punct |
| 2 | Swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Swallow | punct |
| 4 | Swallow | Swallow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Swallow | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Swallow | punct |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Swallow | amod |
| 7 | Swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Swallow | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Swallow | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Swallow | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 away | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 away | punct |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 away | advmod |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 17 | across | across | ADP | _ | 19 city | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 city | det |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 away | obl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 see | nsubj |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 city | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 garret | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 garret | det |
| 27 | garret | garret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 man | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Swallow and little Swallow | away property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | Swallow and little Swallow = swallow | a young man | a garret | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
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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