The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 106
“What an honour!” cried all the courtiers.
Who acts: honour · What happens: honour, cry · To what, where: courtiers · 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 (honour), 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 | _ | 4 honour | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 honour | nsubj |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 honour | det |
| 4 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 honour | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 honour | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 courtiers | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 courtiers | det |
| 10 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cried | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honour in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | a honour | all courtiers | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courtier=Topic |
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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