The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 23

“No,” answered the Linnet, “I don’t think he was distinguished at all, except for his kind heart, and his funny round good-humoured face.

Who acts: Linnet · What happens: answer, not think, distinguish, humour · To what, where: rat, all · 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	_	5 answered	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Linnet	det
7	Linnet	linnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 think	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 think	aux
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 think	advmod
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 distinguished	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 distinguished	aux:pass
16	distinguished	distinguish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 think	ccomp
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 distinguished	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 heart	punct
20	except	except	ADP	_	24 heart	case
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 heart	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 heart	nmod:poss
23	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 heart	amod
24	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 distinguished	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 face	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 face	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 face	nmod:poss
28	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 face	amod
29	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 face	amod
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 humoured	amod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 good	punct
32	humoured	humour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 face	amod
33	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the Linnet				tree rules
2	not think speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	the Linnet = linnet				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	distinguish in a quote	past · passive		rat	all	except rat's kind heart	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme
4	humour in a quote	participle					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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