The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 106
He was so damp with crying that he could not go off at all.
Who acts: Bang · What happens: be, cry, not go off · To what, where: all · 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 (Bang), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 damp | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 damp | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 damp | advmod |
| 4 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 6 crying | mark |
| 6 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 damp | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 go | advmod |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 crying | ccomp |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 go | compound:prt |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 damp | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Bang | damp property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | Bang not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not go off | could | Bang | all | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location |
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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