The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 42

“The ruby has fallen out of his sword, his eyes are gone, and he is golden no longer,” said the Mayor in fact, “he is little better than a beggar!”

Who acts: ruby, eyes, Mayor · What happens: fall, be, say · To what, where: sword · 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 (ruby, eyes, Mayor), 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	_	5 fallen	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ruby	det
3	ruby	ruby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fallen	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fallen	aux
5	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 said	ccomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 sword	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 sword	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sword	nmod:poss
9	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fallen	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gone	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gone	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	cop
14	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fallen	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 golden	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 golden	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 golden	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 golden	cop
19	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gone	conj
20	no	no	ADV	_	21 longer	advmod
21	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 golden	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fallen	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 fallen	punct
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Mayor	det
26	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 fact	case
28	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Mayor	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 better	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 better	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 better	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 better	cop
33	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 better	advmod
34	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 said	parataxis
35	than	than	ADP	_	37 beggar	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 beggar	det
37	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 better	obl
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 better	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fall in a quote	present · perfect	the ruby	Mayor's sword		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out sword=Location
2	is in a quote	present	Mayor's eyes		gone property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	Mayor		golden, long property	tree rules
4	say speech: express	past	the Mayor in fact			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is in a quote	present	Mayor		than a beggar; good, little 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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