The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 50
“We must have another statue, of course,” he said, “and it shall be a statue of myself.”
Who acts: We, Mayor, statue · What happens: have, say, be · To what, where: 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 (We, Mayor, statue), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 statue | det |
| 6 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 course | punct |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 course | case |
| 9 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 statue | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 statue | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 statue | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 statue | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 statue | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 statue | det |
| 21 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 myself | case |
| 23 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 statue | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 statue | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 statue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | must | We | another statue | of course | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statue=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mayor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | shall | statue | a statue | of Mayor | 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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