The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 37
“I tell you what, you are very rude; and, after all, who are you?
Who acts: girl, you · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: you · 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 (girl, you), 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 tell | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 tell | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rude | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 rude | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rude | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 rude | advmod |
| 10 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 all | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 all | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 and | punct |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 all | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 all | nmod |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 who | cop |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 who | nsubj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | the girl = girl | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | rude property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | you | 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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