The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 148
“I am going to Egypt”! cried the Swallow, but nobody minded, and when the moon rose he flew back to the Happy Prince.
Who acts: Swallow, nobody, moon · What happens: go, cry, mind, rise, fly back · To what, where: Egypt · 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, nobody, moon), 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 going | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Egypt | case |
| 6 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Swallow | det |
| 11 | Swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 minded | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 minded | cc |
| 14 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 minded | nsubj |
| 15 | minded | mind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 flew | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 rose | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 moon | det |
| 20 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rose | nsubj |
| 21 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 flew | advcl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 flew | nsubj |
| 23 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 flew | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Prince | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Prince | det |
| 27 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Prince | amod |
| 28 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 flew | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the Swallow = swallow | Egypt | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to egypt=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the Swallow | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mind | past | nobody | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | rise | past | the moon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fly back | past | moon | to the Happy Prince result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to prince=Result |
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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