The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 2
“‘Upon my word,’ said the Miller, ‘you are very lazy.
Who acts: word, you, my · What happens: say, be, word · 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 (word, you, my), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 word | punct |
| 3 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 word | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 word | nmod:poss |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 word | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 word | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Miller | det |
| 10 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lazy | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 lazy | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 lazy | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 lazy | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 lazy | advmod |
| 16 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | my word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | lazy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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