The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 14
“‘Do you think it would be unfriendly of me if I said I was busy?’ he inquired in a shy and timid voice.
Who acts: you, garden, I, Miller · What happens: think, be, say, inquire · To what, where: shy voice · 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 (you, garden, I, Miller), 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 | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 3 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 inquired | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 unfriendly | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 unfriendly | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 unfriendly | cop |
| 9 | unfriendly | unfriendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 think | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 unfriendly | obl |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 said | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 unfriendly | advcl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 busy | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 busy | cop |
| 17 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 inquired | nsubj |
| 21 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 voice | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 voice | det |
| 24 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 voice | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 timid | cc |
| 26 | timid | timid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 shy | conj |
| 27 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 inquired | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | would | garden | of me; unfriendly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | I | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | inquire speech: other in a quote | past | Miller | a shy voice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how 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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