The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 77
“‘That was kind of you,’ said Hans; ‘I was half afraid you had forgotten me.’
Who acts: Hans, you · What happens: be, say, forget · To what, where: kind, Hans · 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, 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
| 3 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 kind | det |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 5 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 kind | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 afraid | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 afraid | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 afraid | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 afraid | cop |
| 16 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 17 afraid | advmod |
| 17 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 forgotten | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 forgotten | aux |
| 20 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 afraid | ccomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 forgotten | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 afraid | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | that kind | of you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | Hans | afraid, half property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | forget in a quote | past · perfect | you | Hans | 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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