The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 41
“How shabby indeed!” cried the Town Councillors, who always agreed with the Mayor; and they went up to look at it.
Who acts: Town Councillors, Councillors · What happens: cry, agree, go up, look
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 (Town Councillors, Councillors), 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 shabby | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 shabby | advmod |
| 3 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 shabby | advmod |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 shabby | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 shabby | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Councillors | det |
| 9 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Councillors | compound |
| 10 | Councillors | Councillor | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 agreed | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 agreed | nsubj |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 agreed | advmod |
| 14 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Councillors | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Mayor | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Mayor | det |
| 17 | Mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 agreed | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 went | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 look | mark |
| 24 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 went | advcl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 look | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the Town Councillors | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | participle | the Town Councillors | with the Mayor; always property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with mayor=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | go up | past | Councillors = councillor | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | Councillors = councillor not said here | at statue | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
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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