The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 11

“And what, pray, is your idea of the duties of a devoted friend?” asked a Green Linnet, who was sitting in a willow-tree hard by, and had overheard the conversation.

Who acts: Green Linnet · What happens: pray, be, ask, sit, overhear · To what, where: idea, willow tree, conversation · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Green Linnet), 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 what	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 what	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 asked	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pray	punct
5	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 idea	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 idea	cop
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 idea	nmod:poss
9	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 duties	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 duties	det
12	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 idea	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 friend	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 friend	det
15	devoted	devoted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 friend	amod
16	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 duties	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
19	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Linnet	det
21	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Linnet	amod
22	Linnet	linnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 asked	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sitting	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 sitting	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sitting	aux
26	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 Linnet	acl
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 tree	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 tree	det
29	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tree	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 willow	punct
31	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sitting	obl
32	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tree	amod
33	by	by	ADP	_	32 hard	fixed
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 overheard	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 overheard	cc
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 overheard	aux
37	overheard	overhear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 asked	ccomp
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 conversation	det
39	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 overheard	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pray in a quote	present					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a in a quote	present		your idea		of the duties of a devoted friend	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past	a Green Linnet				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic
4	sit	past · progressive	a Green Linnet		a willow tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location
5	overhear	past · perfect		the conversation			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer conversation=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/11/