The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 35

“She has no conversation,” he said, “and I am afraid that she is a coquette, for she is always flirting with the wind.”

Who acts: Reed, Swallow · What happens: have, say, be, flirt · To what, where: conversation, coquette · 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 (Reed, Swallow), 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 has	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 conversation	det
5	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 afraid	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 afraid	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 afraid	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 afraid	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 afraid	cop
15	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 coquette	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 coquette	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 coquette	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 coquette	det
20	coquette	coquette	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 afraid	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 flirting	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 flirting	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 flirting	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 flirting	aux
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 flirting	advmod
26	flirting	flirt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 afraid	ccomp
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 wind	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wind	det
29	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flirting	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 flirting	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	Reed	no conversation		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversation=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Swallow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	Swallow		afraid property	tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present	Reed	a coquette		tree rules
5	flirt speech: other in a quote	present · progressive	Reed		with the wind; always property	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wind=Co-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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