The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 25
“Why, what a wonderful piece of luck!” he cried; “here is a red rose!
Who acts: wonderful piece · What happens: piece, cry, be · To what, where: red rose · 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 (wonderful piece), 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 | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 cried | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 piece | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 piece | nsubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 piece | det |
| 6 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 piece | amod |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 luck | case |
| 9 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piece | nmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 piece | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 piece | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 rose | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 here | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 here | punct |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 cried | advmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 rose | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 rose | det |
| 19 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rose | amod |
| 20 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | piece in a quote | of luck | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | a wonderful piece | here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | a red rose | 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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