The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 79
“And how do you like the Water-rat?” asked the Duck, who came paddling up some minutes afterwards.
Who acts: you, Duck · What happens: like, ask, come, paddle up · To what, where: 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 (you, Duck), 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 | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 like | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 like | advmod |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 like | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 like | nsubj |
| 6 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rat | det |
| 8 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 rat | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Water | punct |
| 10 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 like | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Duck | det |
| 15 | Duck | Duck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Duck | acl:relcl |
| 19 | paddling | paddle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 came | xcomp |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 paddling | compound:prt |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 minutes | det |
| 22 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 paddling | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 19 paddling | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like in a quote | present · do-support | you | the Water rat | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Duck | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the Duck | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | paddle up | gerund | the Duck not said here | minute | afterwards property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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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