The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 10
“‘I am very sorry,’ said little Hans, rubbing his eyes and pulling off his night-cap, ‘but I was so tired that I thought I would lie in bed for a little time, and listen to the birds singing.
Who acts: I, birds · What happens: be, say, rub, pull off, think, lie · To what, where: little Hans, eyes, night cap, bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, birds), 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 | _ | 6 sorry | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 sorry | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sorry | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 sorry | advmod |
| 6 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorry | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorry | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Hans | amod |
| 11 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rubbing | punct |
| 13 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rubbing | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pulling | cc |
| 17 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 rubbing | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 pulling | compound:prt |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 cap | nmod:poss |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cap | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 night | punct |
| 22 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pulling | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 tired | punct |
| 24 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 tired | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 tired | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 tired | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 tired | cop |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 tired | advmod |
| 29 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | parataxis |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 thought | mark |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 thought | nsubj |
| 32 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 tired | advcl |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 lie | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 lie | aux |
| 35 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 thought | ccomp |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 bed | case |
| 37 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lie | obl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 time | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 time | det |
| 40 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 time | amod |
| 41 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lie | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 listen | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 listen | cc |
| 44 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 35 lie | parataxis |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 birds | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 birds | det |
| 47 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 listen | obl |
| 48 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 47 birds | acl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | I | sorry 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 | rub in a quote | gerund | word's eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pull off in a quote | gerund | word's night cap | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | I | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other in a quote | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | lie in a quote | would | I | bed | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | |||
| 8 | listen in a quote | infinitive | to the birds | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bird=Theme | |||||
| 9 | sing speech: express in a quote | gerund | the birds not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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