The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 37
“‘It is some poor traveller,’ said little Hans to himself, and he ran to the door.
Who acts: rap, poor traveller, traveller · What happens: be, say, run · To what, where: poor traveller, little Hans, traveller · 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 (rap, poor traveller, traveller), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 traveller | punct |
| 3 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 traveller | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 traveller | cop |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 traveller | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 traveller | amod |
| 7 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 traveller | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 traveller | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Hans | amod |
| 12 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 himself | case |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ran | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ran | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ran | nsubj |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ran | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | rap | some poor traveller | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | some poor traveller | little Hans | traveller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent han=Topic to himself=Recipient | |||
| 3 | run in a quote | past | traveller | to the door result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result |
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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