The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 97
“‘A plank of wood!’ said the Miller; ‘why, that is just what I want for the roof of my barn.
Who acts: plank, that · What happens: say, be, want · 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 (plank, that), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 plank | punct |
| 3 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 plank | det |
| 4 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wood | case |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plank | nmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 plank | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 plank | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Miller | det |
| 11 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 what | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 what | punct |
| 14 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 what | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 what | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 what | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | cop |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 what | advmod |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 said | ccomp |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 want | nsubj |
| 21 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 roof | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 roof | det |
| 24 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 want | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 barn | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 barn | nmod:poss |
| 27 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 roof | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express in a quote | past | a plank of wood | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | a plank of wood = plank | for the roof of my barn | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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