The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 1
“Nonsense!” said the Roman Candle, “Romance never dies.
Who acts: Roman Candle, Romance · What happens: say, not die · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roman Candle, Romance), 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 | _ | 2 Nonsense | punct |
| 2 | Nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nonsense | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nonsense | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Candle | det |
| 7 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Candle | amod |
| 8 | Candle | Candle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dies | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 dies | punct |
| 11 | Romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dies | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 dies | advmod |
| 13 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Roman Candle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not die in a quote | present | Romance | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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