The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 63

He spoke of the matter at great length, and I am sure he must have been right, for he had blue spectacles and a bald head, and whenever the young man made any remark, he always answered ‘Pooh!’

Who acts: critic, I, young man, man · What happens: speak, be, have, make, answer · To what, where: great length, blue spectacles, remark, Pooh · 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 (critic, I, young man, man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 matter	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 matter	det
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 length	case
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 length	amod
8	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sure	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sure	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 sure	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sure	cop
13	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spoke	parataxis
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 right	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 right	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 right	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADV	_	13 sure	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 had	case
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
23	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 spectacles	amod
24	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 had	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 head	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 head	det
27	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 head	amod
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spectacles	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 made	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 made	cc
31	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 made	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 man	det
33	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 man	amod
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 made	nsubj
35	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 remark	det
37	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 made	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 answered	punct
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 answered	nsubj
40	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	41 answered	advmod
41	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	parataxis
42	‘	'	PUNCT	_	43 Pooh	punct
43	Pooh	Pooh	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 answered	obj
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	43 Pooh	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	41 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	critic			great length	of the matter	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	I				sure property	tree rules
3	is	must · perfect	critic				right property	tree rules
4	have	past	critic	blue spectacles and a bald head				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Patient
5	make	past	the young man	any remark			whenever property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remark=Product
6	answer speech: assert	past	man		Pooh		always property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pooh=Eventuality

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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