The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 113
“What are fireworks like?” she had asked the Prince, one morning, as she was walking on the terrace.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: be, ask, walk · To what, where: fireworks, terrace · 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 (Princess), 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 fireworks | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 fireworks | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fireworks | cop |
| 4 | fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 asked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 fireworks | nmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fireworks | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fireworks | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | aux |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 morning | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 morning | nummod |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Prince | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 walking | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 walking | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 walking | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 walking | aux |
| 20 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 terrace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 terrace | det |
| 23 | terrace | terrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 walking | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | fireworks | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past · perfect · passive | fireworks | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | walk | past · progressive | Princess | the terrace | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on terrace=Trajectory |
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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