The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 23

“He looks just like an angel,” said the Charity Children as they came out of the cathedral in their bright scarlet cloaks and their clean white pinafores.

Who acts: man, Charity Children, Children · What happens: look, say, come out · To what, where: cathedral · 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 (man, Charity Children, Children), 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	_	3 looks	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 angel	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 angel	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 angel	det
7	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looks	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Children	det
12	Charity	Charity	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Children	compound
13	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obj
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 cathedral	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 cathedral	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cathedral	det
20	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 cloaks	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 cloaks	nmod:poss
23	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cloaks	amod
24	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cloaks	compound
25	cloaks	cloak	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cathedral	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 pinafores	cc
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 pinafores	nmod:poss
28	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pinafores	amod
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pinafores	amod
30	pinafores	pinafore	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 cloaks	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present	man		like a angel	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the Charity Children			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come out	past	Children = child	the cathedral in Children's bright scarlet cloaks and Children's clean white pinafores		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient cathedral=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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