The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 85
“He is weeping for a red rose,” said the Nightingale.
Who acts: Rose, Nightingale · What happens: weep, 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 (Rose, Nightingale), 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 weeping | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 weeping | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 weeping | aux |
| 4 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 rose | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rose | det |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rose | amod |
| 8 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weeping | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 weeping | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 weeping | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Nightingale | det |
| 13 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep in a quote | present · progressive | Rose | for a red rose | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Nightingale | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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