The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 39

“‘You are certainly very thoughtful about others,’ answered the Wife, as she sat in her comfortable armchair by the big pinewood fire; ‘very thoughtful indeed.

Who acts: Wife · What happens: be, answer, sit · To what, where: Wife, comfortable armchair · 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 (Wife), 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	_	12 answered	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 thoughtful	punct
3	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 thoughtful	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thoughtful	cop
5	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	7 thoughtful	advmod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 thoughtful	advmod
7	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 answered	ccomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 others	case
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thoughtful	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thoughtful	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 thoughtful	punct
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Wife	det
14	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answered	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 sat	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 answered	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 armchair	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 armchair	nmod:poss
21	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 armchair	amod
22	armchair	armchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
23	by	by	ADP	_	27 fire	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fire	det
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fire	amod
26	pinewood	pinewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fire	compound
27	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 thoughtful	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 thoughtful	punct
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 thoughtful	advmod
31	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sat	conj
32	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	31 thoughtful	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the Wife = wife			about others; certainly, thoughtful property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert in a quote	past		the Wife			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality
3	sit in a quote	past	wife		wife's comfortable armchair	by the big pinewood fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in armchair=Location

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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