The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 72
“‘Good morning,’ said Hans, leaning on his spade, and smiling from ear to ear.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: say, lean, smile · To what, where: spade, ear · 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 (Hans), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 3 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 leaning | punct |
| 10 | leaning | lean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 spade | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 spade | nmod:poss |
| 13 | spade | spade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaning | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 smiling | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 smiling | cc |
| 16 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 leaning | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 ear | case |
| 18 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 smiling | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 ear | case |
| 20 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 smiling | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lean in a quote | gerund | Hans not said here | Hans's spade | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on spade=Location | ||||
| 3 | smile in a quote | gerund | Hans not said here | ear | to ear | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ear=Recipient |
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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