The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 105

“It’s quite clear that they love each other,” said the little Page, “as clear as crystal!” and the King doubled his salary a second time.

Who acts: lips, little Page, King · What happens: be, love, say, double · To what, where: each, salary · 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 (lips, little Page, King), 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	_	5 clear	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 clear	expl
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clear	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 clear	advmod
5	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 love	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 love	nsubj
8	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clear	advcl
9	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	8 love	obj
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 each	fixed
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 love	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 clear	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Page	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Page	amod
16	Page	Page	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 clear	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 clear	punct
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 clear	advmod
20	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 crystal	case
22	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 clear	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 clear	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 clear	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 doubled	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 King	det
27	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 doubled	nsubj
28	doubled	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 salary	nmod:poss
30	salary	salary	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 doubled	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 time	det
32	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 time	amod
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 doubled	obl:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present				clear property	tree rules
2	love in a quote	present	lips = lip	each			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	the little Page				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	double	past	the King	King's salary	time		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent salary=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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