The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 70
“It is quite evident then that you have no sympathy in your nature,” said the Water-rat.
Who acts: Blacksmith, you, Water rat · What happens: be, have, say · To what, where: sympathy, nature · 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 (Blacksmith, you, Water rat), 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 evident | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 evident | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 evident | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 evident | advmod |
| 5 | evident | evident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | ccomp |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 evident | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 evident | advcl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 sympathy | det |
| 11 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 nature | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 nature | nmod:poss |
| 14 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sympathy | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 evident | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rat | det |
| 19 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 rat | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Water | punct |
| 21 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Blacksmith | then | evident property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | you | no sympathy | your nature | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sympathy=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Water rat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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