The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 107
“There is a way,” answered the Tree; “but it is so terrible that I dare not tell it to you.”
Who acts: way, Tree · What happens: be, answer, tell · To what, where: way, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, Tree), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tree | det |
| 10 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 terrible | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 terrible | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 terrible | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 terrible | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 terrible | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 terrible | advmod |
| 17 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 answered | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 tell | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 tell | nsubj |
| 20 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 tell | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 dare | advmod |
| 22 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 terrible | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 tell | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 tell | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | a way | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Tree | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | way | terrible property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | the Tree = tree | way | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to you=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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