The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 82
“The fact is, that I told him a story with a moral.”
What happens: tell · To what, where: Linnet, 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: 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 | _ | 3 fact | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fact | det |
| 3 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | aux:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 told | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 told | nsubj |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fact | acl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 moral | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 moral | det |
| 14 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 story | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fact | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fact | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · passive | the Linnet = linnet | rat | tree rules |
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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