The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 104
Bang! answered the Crackers, who were enjoying themselves immensely.
Who acts: Bang, Crackers · What happens: answer, enjoy · To what, where: Crackers, sparks
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 (Bang, Crackers), 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 | Bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bang | punct |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Crackers | det |
| 5 | Crackers | Cracker | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 answered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 enjoying | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 enjoying | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 enjoying | aux |
| 9 | enjoying | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Crackers | acl |
| 10 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 enjoying | obj |
| 11 | immensely | immensely | ADV | _ | 9 enjoying | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Bang | the Crackers | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cracker=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | enjoy | past · progressive | the Crackers | sparks = spark | immensely property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus |
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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