The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 86
“‘Well, the fact is,’ said Hans, ‘that I was obliged to.
Who acts: fact, Hans · What happens: be, say, oblige · To what, where: 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 (fact, 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 3 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 is | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Well | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fact | det |
| 6 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | 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 obliged | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 obliged | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 obliged | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 obliged | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 obliged | aux:pass |
| 17 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 obliged | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | the fact | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | oblige in a quote | past · passive | Hans | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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