The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 65
“What! is he not solid gold?” said the Swallow to himself.
Who acts: solid gold · What happens: not be, say · To what, where: solid gold, Swallow, heart · 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 (solid gold), 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 | _ | 8 gold | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 gold | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gold | cop |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gold | nsubj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 gold | advmod |
| 7 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gold | amod |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 gold | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 gold | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Swallow | det |
| 13 | Swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 said | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | solid gold | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | solid gold | the Swallow | heart | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent swallow=Topic to himself=Recipient |
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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