The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 53
“What a strange thing!” said the overseer of the workmen at the foundry.
Who acts: overseer · What happens: say · 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 (overseer), 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 thing | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 thing | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 overseer | det |
| 10 | overseer | overseer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 workmen | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 workmen | det |
| 13 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 overseer | nmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 foundry | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 foundry | det |
| 16 | foundry | foundry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 workmen | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the overseer of the workmen at the foundry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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