The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 129
“She has form,” he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove—“that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling?
Who acts: love, Student · What happens: have, say, walk away, not deny, get, feel · To what, where: form, Student, grove, love · 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 (love, Student), 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 has | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 himself | case |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 walked | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 walked | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 walked | nsubj |
| 14 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 walked | advmod |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 grove | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 grove | det |
| 18 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 walked | obl |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 denied | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 denied | punct |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 denied | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 denied | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 denied | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 denied | aux:pass |
| 25 | denied | deny | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 grove | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 denied | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 has | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 has | cc |
| 30 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 got | nsubj |
| 32 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 has | ccomp |
| 33 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 got | xcomp |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | love | form | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Student | Student | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | walk away | past | Student | the grove | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | not deny in a quote | can · passive | the grove | love | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | get in a quote | past | love | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | feel in a quote | gerund | love not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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