The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 123
“I have many beautiful flowers,” he said; “but the children are the most beautiful flowers of all.”
Who acts: Giant, children · What happens: have, say, be · To what, where: many beautiful flowers, beautiful flowers · 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, children), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flowers | amod |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flowers | amod |
| 6 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 flowers | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 flowers | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 children | det |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 flowers | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 flowers | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 flowers | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 beautiful | advmod |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 flowers | amod |
| 20 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 all | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 flowers | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Giant | many beautiful flowers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the children | the beautiful flowers | of all | tree rules |
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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