The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 48

“What a curious thing!” he cried; “there is not a single cloud in the sky, the stars are quite clear and bright, and yet it is raining.

Who acts: wind, single cloud, stars, it · What happens: cry, be, rain · 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, single cloud, stars, it), 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 thing	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 thing	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	ccomp
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 is	expl
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	conj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 cloud	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cloud	det
16	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cloud	amod
17	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 is	nsubj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 sky	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sky	det
20	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cloud	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 clear	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stars	det
23	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 clear	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 clear	cop
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 clear	advmod
26	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cloud	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bright	cc
28	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 clear	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 raining	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 raining	cc
31	yet	yet	ADV	_	34 raining	advmod
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 raining	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 raining	aux
34	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cried	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	wind				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be in a quote	present	a single cloud in the sky	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	the stars			clear property	tree rules
4	be in a quote		the stars not said here				tree rules
5	rain in a quote	present · progressive	it		yet		vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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