The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 151

“It is winter,” answered the Swallow, “and the chill snow will soon be here.

Who acts: hunger, winter, chill snow · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: winter, 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 (hunger, winter, chill snow), 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 winter	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 winter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 winter	cop
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 winter	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 winter	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Swallow	det
9	Swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 here	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 here	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 here	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 snow	det
14	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 snow	compound
15	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 here	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 here	aux
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 here	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 here	cop
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 answered	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	hunger	winter		tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	winter	the Swallow		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent swallow=Eventuality
3	is in a quote	future	the chill snow		here, soon property	tree rules

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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