The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 4
“What a lovely bit of glass,” cried the little girl; and she ran home, laughing.
Who acts: little girl, girl · What happens: cry, run, laugh
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 (little girl, girl), 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 | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 bit | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 4 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bit | amod |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | advmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 glass | case |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bit | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bit | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 girl | amod |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ran | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ran | nsubj |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 ran | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 laughing | punct |
| 20 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 ran | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the little girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | run | past | girl | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | girl not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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