The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 112
“But where is your little companion?” he said: “the boy I put into the tree.”
Who acts: Giant, boy · What happens: be, say, put · To what, where: little companion, tree · 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 (Giant, boy), 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 companion | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 companion | cc |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 companion | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 companion | cop |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 companion | nmod:poss |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 companion | amod |
| 7 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 companion | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 companion | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | nsubj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 put | nsubj |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | your little companion | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | put in a quote | past | the boy | the tree | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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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