The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 40
“What a silly thing Love is,” said the Student as he walked away.
Who acts: silly thing Love, Student · What happens: be, say, walk away · 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 (silly thing Love, Student), 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 | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 6 Love | det |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Love | det |
| 4 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Love | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Love | compound |
| 6 | Love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Student | det |
| 12 | Student | Student | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 walked | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 walked | nsubj |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | advcl |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 walked | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | what silly thing Love | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Student | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | walk away | past | Student | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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