The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 25
“‘Do you really think I shall?’ asked little Hans.
Who acts: little Hans · What happens: think, ask · To what, where: little Hans · 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 (little Hans), 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 | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
| 3 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 think | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 think | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 think | advmod |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 shall | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 think | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Hans | amod |
| 13 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | 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 | little Hans = han | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | little Hans | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent han=Recipient 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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