The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 70
“Spring has forgotten this garden,” they cried, “so we will live here all the year round.”
Who acts: Spring, people, we · What happens: forget, cry, live · To what, where: garden · 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 (Spring, people, we), 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 | _ | 4 forgotten | punct |
| 2 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forgotten | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgotten | aux |
| 4 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 cried | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forgotten | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgotten | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgotten | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 live | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 live | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 live | advmod |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 live | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 live | aux |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cried | conj |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 live | advmod |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 year | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 year | det |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 live | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | round | round | ADV | _ | 16 live | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget in a quote | present · perfect | Spring | this garden | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | people | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | live in a quote | future | we | here | year | round property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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