The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 114

“They are like the Aurora Borealis,” said the King, who always answered questions that were addressed to other people, “only much more natural.

Who acts: fireworks, Aurora, King · What happens: be, say, answer, address · To what, where: questions · 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 (fireworks, Aurora, 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	_	6 Aurora	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Aurora	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Aurora	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 Aurora	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Aurora	det
6	Aurora	Aurora	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
7	Borealis	Borealis	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Aurora	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Aurora	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 Aurora	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 answered	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 answered	nsubj
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 answered	advmod
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
17	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 answered	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 addressed	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 addressed	aux:pass
20	addressed	address	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 questions	acl:relcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 people	case
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 people	amod
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 addressed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 natural	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 natural	punct
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADV	_	28 more	advmod
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 natural	advmod
29	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 people	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	fireworks = firework		like the Aurora	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Aurora			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	answer speech: assert	past	the King	questions	always property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
4	address	past · passive		questions	to other people	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination

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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