The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 110

Indeed, he knew only two airs, and was never quite certain which one he was playing; but it made no matter, for, whatever he did, everybody cried out, “Charming! charming!”

Who acts: King, Ball, everybody · What happens: know, not be, play, make, do, cry out · To what, where: two airs, one, matter, Charming

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, Ball, everybody), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 knew	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 two	advmod
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 airs	nummod
7	airs	air	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knew	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 certain	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 certain	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 certain	cop
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 certain	advmod
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 certain	advmod
13	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knew	conj
14	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 certain	appos
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 playing	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 playing	aux
18	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 one	acl:relcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 matter	det
24	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 whatever	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 whatever	case
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 for	punct
28	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 made	parataxis
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 did	nsubj
30	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 whatever	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cried	punct
32	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	33 cried	nsubj
33	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 cried	compound:prt
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Charming	punct
36	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 Charming	punct
37	Charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cried	obl
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 charming	punct
39	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cried	obl
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 charming	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	39 charming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	King	two airs	indeed property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer air=Stimulus
2	not is	past	King not said here		certain property	tree rules
3	play	past · progressive	King	which one not said here		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	make	past	Ball	no matter		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material matter=Product
5	do	past	King			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cry out speech: express	past	everybody	Charming	charming obl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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