The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 51
“Of myself,” said each of the Town Councillors, and they quarrelled.
Who acts: Councillors · What happens: say, quarrell · To what, where: each · 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), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 myself | case |
| 3 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 myself | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 myself | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 said | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Councillors | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Councillors | det |
| 10 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Councillors | compound |
| 11 | Councillors | Councillor | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 each | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 quarrelled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 quarrelled | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 quarrelled | nsubj |
| 15 | quarrelled | quarrell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent each=Topic | |||||
| 2 | quarrell | past | Councillors = councillor | 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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