The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 16
“I don’t understand you,” answered the Water-rat.
Who acts: Water rat · What happens: not understand, answer · To what, where: you · 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 (Water rat), 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 understand | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 understand | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 understand | advmod |
| 5 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 understand | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 understand | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 understand | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rat | det |
| 11 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 rat | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Water | punct |
| 13 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand in a quote | present · do-support | the Water rat = rat | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Water rat | 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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