The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 135
“Nay!” answered the child; “but these are the wounds of Love.”
Who acts: child, these · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: wounds · 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 (child, these), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wounds | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 wounds | cc |
| 11 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 wounds | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wounds | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wounds | det |
| 14 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 answered | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Love | case |
| 16 | Love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wounds | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 wounds | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the child | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | these | the wounds | of Love | 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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