The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 22
“Was he very distinguished?” asked the Water-rat.
Who acts: Hans, Water rat · What happens: be, ask · 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 (Hans, 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 distinguished | punct |
| 2 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 distinguished | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 distinguished | nsubj |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 distinguished | advmod |
| 5 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 distinguished | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 distinguished | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | 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 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | Hans | distinguished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Water rat | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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