The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 43
“Where shall I put up?” he said; “I hope the town has made preparations.”
Who acts: wind, town · What happens: put up, say, hope, have, make · To what, where: made preparations · 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 (wind, town), 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 | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 put | advmod |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 put | compound:prt |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 hope | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 hope | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 hope | nsubj |
| 14 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 town | det |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 has | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hope | ccomp |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 preparations | amod |
| 19 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 has | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put up in a quote | shall | wind | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | wind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hope in a quote | present | wind | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | the town | made preparations | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preparation=Patient | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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