The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 83

The boy is so thirsty, and the mother so sad.”

Who acts: boy · What happens: be

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 (boy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thirsty	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thirsty	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 thirsty	advmod
5	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mother	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mother	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mother	det
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thirsty	obl
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 sad	advmod
11	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mother	amod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thirsty	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 thirsty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the boy					the mother obl; thirsty property	tree rules

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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