The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 13
“What a silly question!” cried the Water-rat.
Who acts: silly question · What happens: cry · To what, where: Water rat
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 (silly question), 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 | _ | 5 question | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 question | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 question | det |
| 4 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 question | amod |
| 5 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 question | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 question | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rat | det |
| 10 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 rat | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Water | punct |
| 12 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | what silly question | the Water rat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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