The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 76
“Well, really,” said the Water-rat, in a very angry manner, “I think you should have told me that before you began.
Who acts: Water rat, you · What happens: say, think, tell, begin · To what, where: angry manner, you, Water rat · 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 (Water rat, you), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 really | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 really | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rat | det |
| 9 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 rat | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Water | punct |
| 11 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 manner | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 manner | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 manner | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 angry | advmod |
| 16 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 manner | amod |
| 17 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 told | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 told | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 think | nsubj |
| 21 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 told | parataxis |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 told | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 told | aux |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 told | aux |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 told | iobj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 began | mark |
| 28 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 30 began | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 began | nsubj |
| 30 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 told | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Water rat | a angry manner | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in manner=Manner | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | the Water rat = rat | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | should · perfect · passive | you | the Water rat = rat | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic | ||||
| 4 | begin in a quote | past | you | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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