The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 54
“What are you doing here?” he cried in a very gruff voice, and the children ran away.
Who acts: you, Giant, children · What happens: do, cry, run away · To what, where: gruff voice · 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 (you, Giant, children), 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 doing | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 doing | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 doing | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 doing | nsubj |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cried | advcl |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 doing | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 gruff | advmod |
| 14 | gruff | gruff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ran | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ran | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 children | det |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ran | nsubj |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 ran | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · progressive | you | here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Giant | a gruff voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location | ||||
| 3 | run away | past | the children | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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