The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 12
“Yes, that is just what I want to know,” said the Duck; and she swam away to the end of the pond, and stood upon her head, in order to give her children a good example.
Who acts: that, Duck, Linnet · What happens: be, want, know, say, swim away, stand · To what, where: end, head, good example, children · 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 (that, Duck, Linnet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg902:349): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 what | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 what | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 what | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | cop |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 what | advmod |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 said | ccomp |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 want | nsubj |
| 9 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 want | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 what | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 what | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Duck | det |
| 16 | Duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 swam | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 swam | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 swam | nsubj |
| 20 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 swam | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 end | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 end | det |
| 24 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 swam | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 pond | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pond | det |
| 27 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 end | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stood | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 stood | cc |
| 30 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 swam | conj |
| 31 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 33 head | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 head | nmod:poss |
| 33 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stood | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 give | punct |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | ExtPos=SCONJ | 38 give | mark |
| 36 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 in | fixed |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 give | mark |
| 38 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 stood | advcl |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 children | nmod:poss |
| 40 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 give | iobj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 example | det |
| 42 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 example | amod |
| 43 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 give | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | the Duck = duck | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Duck = duck not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Duck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | swim away | past | Linnet | to the end of the pond | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to end=Destination | |||
| 6 | stand | past | Linnet not said here | Linnet's head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon head=Location | ||||
| 7 | give | to-infinitive | Linnet not said here | a good example | Linnet's children | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient example=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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