The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 51
Why, the words are spelt differently, and mean quite different things.
What happens: spelt, mean · To what, where: words, different things
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: 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 spelt | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spelt | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spelt | aux:pass |
| 6 | spelt | spelt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 mean | advcl |
| 7 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 6 spelt | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mean | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mean | cc |
| 10 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 different | advmod |
| 12 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | amod |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 mean | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spelt | present · passive | the words | differently property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | different things | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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