The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 67
“Far away,” continued the statue in a low musical voice, “far away in a little street there is a poor house.
Who acts: poor house · What happens: continue, be · To what, where: statue, low musical voice, little street
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 (poor house), 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 continued | punct |
| 2 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 continued | advmod |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 Far | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Far | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Far | punct |
| 6 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 statue | det |
| 8 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 continued | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 voice | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 11 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voice | amod |
| 12 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voice | amod |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 continued | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 away | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 away | punct |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 away | advmod |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 continued | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 street | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 street | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 street | amod |
| 21 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 away | obl |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 is | expl |
| 23 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 street | acl:relcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 25 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 house | amod |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 is | nsubj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the statue | a low musical voice | away, far property | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent statue=Theme | |||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | a poor house | a little street not said here | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot street=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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