The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 40
As they passed the column he looked up at the statue: “Dear me! how shabby the Happy Prince looks!” he said.
Who acts: Councillors, Mayor, Happy Prince · What happens: pass, look up, look, say · To what, where: column, statue · 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 (Councillors, Mayor, Happy Prince), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 passed | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looked | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 column | det |
| 5 | column | column | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 looked | compound:prt |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 statue | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 statue | det |
| 11 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Dear | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Dear | punct |
| 14 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 looked | parataxis |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 Dear | nsubj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Dear | punct |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 shabby | advmod |
| 18 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 looks | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 20 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Prince | amod |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 looks | nsubj |
| 22 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Dear | parataxis |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 looks | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 looks | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 looks | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Councillors = councillor | the column | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme column=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | look up | past | Mayor | the statue | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look in a quote | present | the Happy Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Mayor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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