The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 109
He played very badly, but no one had ever dared to tell him so, because he was the King.
Who acts: King · What happens: play, dare, tell, be · To what, where: one, King · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 played | nsubj |
| 2 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 badly | advmod |
| 4 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 played | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dared | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 dared | cc |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dared | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dared | aux |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 dared | advmod |
| 11 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 played | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 tell | mark |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dared | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | iobj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 tell | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 King | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 King | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 King | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 King | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 tell | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | King | badly property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dare | past · perfect · passive | no one | ever | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | King | the King | tree rules |
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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