The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 114
“We don’t know,” answered the children; “he has gone away.”
Who acts: We, children, Giant · What happens: not know, answer, go away · 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 (We, children, Giant), 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 | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 children | det |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 gone | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 gone | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gone | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 gone | aux |
| 15 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 know | parataxis |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 gone | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | We | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the children | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go away in a quote | present · perfect | Giant | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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