The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 112
“Death is a great price to pay for a red rose,” cried the Nightingale, “and Life is very dear to all.
Who acts: Death, Nightingale, Life · What happens: be, pay, cry · To what, where: great price · 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 (Death, Nightingale, Life), 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 price | punct |
| 2 | Death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 price | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 price | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 price | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 price | amod |
| 6 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 pay | mark |
| 8 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 price | acl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 rose | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rose | det |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rose | amod |
| 12 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pay | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 price | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 price | punct |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Nightingale | det |
| 17 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dear | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 dear | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Life | cc |
| 21 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 dear | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 dear | cop |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 dear | advmod |
| 24 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cried | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 dear | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Death | a great price | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay in a quote | to-infinitive | the Nightingale not said here | for a red rose | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for rose=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the Nightingale | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Life | to all; dear 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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