The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 44
“And here is actually a dead bird at his feet!” continued the Mayor.
Who acts: dead bird · What happens: be, continue · To what, where: dead bird, feet, Mayor
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 (dead bird), 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 | _ | 8 bird | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 here | cc |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 bird | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bird | cop |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 8 bird | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bird | amod |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 continued | nsubj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bird | nmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 bird | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 bird | punct |
| 14 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Mayor | det |
| 16 | Mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 continued | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a dead bird | bird's feet; here | actually property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | continue | past | a dead bird | the Mayor | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mayor=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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