The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 100
“How selfish I have been!” he said; “now I know why the Spring would not come here.
Who acts: Selfish, Spring · What happens: be, say, know, not come · To what, where: selfish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Selfish, Spring), 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 | _ | 6 been | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 selfish | advmod |
| 3 | selfish | selfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 been | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 selfish | nmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 been | aux |
| 6 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 been | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 been | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 know | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 come | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Spring | det |
| 18 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 come | advmod |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 know | ccomp |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 come | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present · perfect · passive | selfish I | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Selfish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | Selfish | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not come in a quote | would | the Spring | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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