The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 64
“How happy we were there,” they said to each other.
Who acts: we, children · What happens: be, say · To what, where: each · 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 (we, 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 | _ | 3 happy | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 happy | advmod |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 there | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happy | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 happy | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 happy | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 each | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 each | fixed |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | we | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | children = child | each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |
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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