The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 119
“‘Oh, I am so sorry,’ said Hans, ‘but I am really very busy to-day.
Who acts: great many people, Hans · What happens: be, say · 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 (great many people, Hans), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorry | punct |
| 3 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 sorry | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Oh | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 sorry | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sorry | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 sorry | advmod |
| 8 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorry | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorry | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 busy | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 busy | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 busy | cop |
| 18 | really | really | ADV | _ | 20 busy | advmod |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 busy | advmod |
| 20 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 to | punct |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 busy | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | a great many people = people | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | a great many people = people | day | busy property | tree rules |
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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