The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 136
“Who art thou?” said the Giant, and a strange awe fell on him, and he knelt before the little child.
Who acts: strange awe, awe · What happens: say, fall, kneel · To what, where: Giant · 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 (strange awe, awe), 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 | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 art | nsubj |
| 3 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 art | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Giant | det |
| 9 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 awe | det |
| 13 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 awe | amod |
| 14 | awe | awe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fell | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knelt | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 knelt | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 knelt | nsubj |
| 21 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fell | conj |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 child | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 child | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 child | amod |
| 25 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knelt | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | a strange awe | on Giant | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location | ||||
| 3 | kneel | past | awe | before the little child | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before child=Location |
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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