The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 81
“‘They are certainly very lovely,’ said Hans, ‘and it is a most lucky thing for me that I have so many.
Who acts: primroses, Hans, bye · What happens: be, say, have · To what, where: lucky thing, many · 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 (primroses, Hans, bye), 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 | _ | 7 lovely | punct |
| 3 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lovely | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lovely | cop |
| 5 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 lovely | advmod |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 lovely | advmod |
| 7 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lovely | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 lovely | 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 20 thing | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thing | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thing | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 thing | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 thing | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 lucky | advmod |
| 19 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 thing | amod |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 thing | nmod |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 have | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 thing | advcl |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 many | advmod |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 have | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | primroses = primrose | certainly, lovely property | 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 a in a quote | present | bye | a lucky thing | for Hans | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | Hans | many | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient |
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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