The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 47
“What a dreadful storm it was!
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 | _ | 5 storm | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 storm | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 storm | det |
| 4 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 storm | amod |
| 5 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 was | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 storm | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 storm | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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