The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 19
“‘It is quite mended,’ answered little Hans, coming down the ladder.
What happens: mend, answer, come down · To what, where: hole, little Hans, ladder
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: 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 | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 mended | punct |
| 3 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mended | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mended | aux:pass |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 mended | advmod |
| 6 | mended | mend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 answered | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mended | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 mended | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Hans | amod |
| 11 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 coming | punct |
| 13 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 answered | advcl |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 ladder | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ladder | det |
| 16 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 coming | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mend in a quote | present · passive | hole | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | little Hans | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent han=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | come down in a quote | gerund | the ladder | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ladder=Theme |
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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