The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 21
“Once upon a time,” said the Linnet, “there was an honest little fellow named Hans.”
Who acts: Linnet · What happens: say, be, name · To what, where: honest little fellow · 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 (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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 said | advmod |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Once | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Once | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Linnet | det |
| 10 | Linnet | linnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fellow | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fellow | cop |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fellow | det |
| 16 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fellow | amod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fellow | amod |
| 18 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 19 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 fellow | acl |
| 20 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 named | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 fellow | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 fellow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | once property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | the Linnet | a honest little fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name in a quote | participle | a honest little fellow not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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