The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 118
“The world is certainly very beautiful,” cried a little Squib.
Who acts: world, little Squib · What happens: be, cry · 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 (world, little Squib), 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 | _ | 7 beautiful | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 world | det |
| 3 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beautiful | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 beautiful | cop |
| 5 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 beautiful | advmod |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cried | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 beautiful | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 beautiful | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Squib | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Squib | amod |
| 13 | Squib | squib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the world | beautiful, certainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | a little Squib | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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