The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 82
“Why is he weeping?” asked a little Green Lizard, as he ran past him with his tail in the air.
Who acts: Rose · What happens: weep, ask, run · To what, where: little Green Lizard, air · 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 (Rose), 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 weeping | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 weeping | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 weeping | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 weeping | nsubj |
| 5 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 weeping | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 weeping | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Lizard | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Lizard | amod |
| 11 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Lizard | amod |
| 12 | Lizard | Lizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 ran | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | conj |
| 17 | past | past | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ran | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 tail | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 tail | nmod:poss |
| 21 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 air | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 air | det |
| 24 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep in a quote | present · progressive | Rose | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | a little Green Lizard | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent lizard=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | run | past | Rose | the air | past lover; with Rose's tail | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past he=Trajectory |
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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