The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 74
“‘Well, really,’ cried Hans, ‘it is very good of you to ask, very good indeed.
Who acts: Hans, teller · What happens: cry, be, ask
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, teller), 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 | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 3 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 cried | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Well | punct |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 cried | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 really | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 really | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 good | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 good | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 good | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 good | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 good | advmod |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 good | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 ask | mark |
| 19 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 good | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 good | punct |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 good | advmod |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 good | conj |
| 23 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 22 good | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Hans | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | teller | of you; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | teller not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | teller not said here | indeed 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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