The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 74
“This is a delightful spot,” he said, “we must ask the Hail on a visit.”
Who acts: This, Frost, we · What happens: be, say, ask · To what, where: delightful spot, Hail, visit · 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 (This, Frost, 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 | _ | 6 spot | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 spot | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spot | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spot | det |
| 5 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spot | amod |
| 6 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spot | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 spot | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ask | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 ask | aux |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Hail | det |
| 17 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ask | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 visit | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 visit | det |
| 20 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ask | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | a delightful spot | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Frost | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | must | we | the Hail | a visit | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hail=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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