The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 94
“How wonderful the stars are,” he said to her, “and how wonderful is the power of love!”
Who acts: stars, Swallow · What happens: be, say · To what, where: girl, wonderful power · 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 (stars, Swallow), 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 | _ | 3 wonderful | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 wonderful | advmod |
| 3 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stars | det |
| 5 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wonderful | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wonderful | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonderful | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonderful | 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 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 power | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 power | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 power | cc |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 wonderful | advmod |
| 17 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 power | amod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 power | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 power | det |
| 20 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 love | case |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 power | nmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 power | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 power | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the stars | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Swallow | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the wonderful power | of love | 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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