The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 156
“In the square below,” said the Happy Prince, “there stands a little match-girl.
Who acts: Happy Prince, little match girl · What happens: say, stand · To what, where: square · 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 (Happy Prince, little match girl), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 square | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 square | det |
| 4 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 5 | below | below | ADV | _ | 4 square | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 square | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 square | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 10 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Prince | amod |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stands | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 stands | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 stands | expl |
| 15 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 girl | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 girl | amod |
| 18 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 girl | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 match | punct |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stands | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Happy Prince | the square | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stand in a quote | present | a little match girl | there | vn assuming_position-50 «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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