The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 32

“It is a ridiculous attachment,” twittered the other Swallows; “she has no money, and far too many relations”; and indeed the river was quite full of Reeds.

Who acts: courtship, ridiculous attachment, attachment, river · What happens: be, twitter, have · To what, where: ridiculous attachment, other Swallows, money

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 (courtship, ridiculous attachment, attachment, river), 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	_	6 attachment	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 attachment	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 attachment	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 attachment	det
5	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 attachment	amod
6	attachment	attachment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 twittered	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 attachment	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 attachment	punct
9	twittered	twitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Swallows	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Swallows	amod
12	Swallows	Swallow	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 twittered	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 has	nsubj
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 twittered	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 money	det
18	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 relations	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 relations	cc
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 many	advmod
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 many	advmod
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 relations	amod
24	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 has	obj
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 relations	punct
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 full	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 full	cc
28	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	33 full	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 river	det
30	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 full	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 full	cop
32	quite	quite	ADV	_	33 full	advmod
33	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 twittered	parataxis
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Reeds	case
35	Reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 full	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 twittered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	courtship	a ridiculous attachment		tree rules
2	twitter	past	a ridiculous attachment	the other Swallows		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent swallow=Theme
3	have in a quote	present	attachment	no money		tree rules
4	is	past	the river		of Reeds; full, indeed 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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