The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 68
“‘Why, what a good heart you have!’ cried his Wife; ‘you are always thinking of others.
Who acts: you · What happens: have, cry, be · To what, where: good heart, Wife
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 (you), 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 | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Why | punct |
| 3 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 cried | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 Why | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 heart | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heart | amod |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 what | nsubj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 heart | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Why | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Why | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 thinking | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 thinking | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 thinking | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 thinking | cop |
| 20 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 thinking | advmod |
| 21 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 cried | advcl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 others | case |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 thinking | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | you | a good heart not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | heart's Wife | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | of others; always, think property | 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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