The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 22
“I am glad there is some one in the world who is quite happy,” muttered a disappointed man as he gazed at the wonderful statue.
Who acts: disappointed man, world, man · What happens: be, mutter, gaze · 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 (disappointed man, world, man), 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 glad | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | cop |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 muttered | ccomp |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | cop |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | nmod |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 happy | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 happy | cop |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 happy | advmod |
| 15 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 world | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
| 18 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 muttered | obj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 gazed | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gazed | nsubj |
| 24 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 muttered | advcl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 statue | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 statue | det |
| 27 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 statue | amod |
| 28 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gazed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 muttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | a disappointed man = man | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the world | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mutter speech: assert | past | a disappointed man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | gaze | past | man | at the wonderful statue | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at statue=Theme |
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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