The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 95
“‘Well, really, that is generous of you,’ said little Hans, and his funny round face glowed all over with pleasure.
Who acts: that, funny round face · What happens: be, say, glow · To what, where: little 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 (that, funny round face), 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 | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 generous | punct |
| 3 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 generous | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Well | punct |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 generous | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 really | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 generous | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 generous | cop |
| 9 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 generous | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 generous | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 generous | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Hans | amod |
| 16 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 glowed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 glowed | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 face | nmod:poss |
| 20 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 face | amod |
| 21 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 face | amod |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 glowed | nsubj |
| 23 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | conj |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 over | advmod |
| 25 | over | over | ADV | _ | 23 glowed | advmod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 pleasure | case |
| 27 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 glowed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | that | of you; generous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | little Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent han=Topic | |||||
| 3 | glow in a quote | past | sympathy's funny round face | with pleasure; over property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pleasure=Theme |
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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