The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 86

“For a red rose?” they cried; “how very ridiculous!” and the little Lizard, who was something of a cynic, laughed outright.

Who acts: Nightingale, little Lizard · What happens: cry, be, laugh · To what, where: ridiculous, something

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 (Nightingale, little Lizard), 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	_	9 cried	punct
2	For	for	ADP	_	5 rose	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rose	det
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rose	amod
5	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 rose	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 rose	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 ridiculous	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 ridiculous	punct
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 ridiculous	advmod
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 ridiculous	advmod
14	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cried	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 ridiculous	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 ridiculous	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 laughed	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Lizard	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Lizard	amod
20	Lizard	Lizard	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 laughed	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 something	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 something	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 something	cop
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 Lizard	appos
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 cynic	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cynic	det
27	cynic	cynic	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 something	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Lizard	punct
29	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	conj
30	outright	outright	ADV	_	29 laughed	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Nightingale	ridiculous	for a red rose	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for rose=Recipient
2	is a	past	the little Lizard	something	of a cynic	tree rules
3	laugh	past	the little Lizard		outright property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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