The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 84
“Why, indeed?” whispered a Daisy to his neighbour, in a soft, low voice.
Who acts: Daisy · What happens: whisper · To what, where: neighbour, soft low voice
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 (Daisy), 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 | _ | 7 whispered | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 whispered | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 2 Why | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 7 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Daisy | det |
| 9 | Daisy | Daisy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 whispered | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 neighbour | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 12 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 whispered | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 voice | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 voice | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 voice | det |
| 16 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voice | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 soft | punct |
| 18 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voice | amod |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 whispered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | a Daisy | Rose's neighbour | a soft low voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to neighbour=Recipient |
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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