The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 11

“Ahem! ahem!” he said, and everybody listened except the poor Catherine Wheel, who was still shaking her head, and murmuring, “Romance is dead.”

Who acts: Candle, everybody, poor Catherine Wheel, Romance · What happens: say, listen, shake, be · To what, where: murmuring, head · 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 (Candle, everybody, poor Catherine Wheel, 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 Ahem	punct
2	Ahem	ahem	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 ahem	punct
4	ahem	ahem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ahem	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ahem	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ahem	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 listened	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 listened	cc
11	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 listened	nsubj
12	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
13	except	except	ADP	_	17 Wheel	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Wheel	det
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Wheel	amod
16	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Wheel	compound
17	Wheel	Wheel	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 listened	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shaking	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 shaking	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 shaking	aux
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 shaking	advmod
22	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 Wheel	acl
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shaking	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 murmuring	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 murmuring	cc
27	murmuring	murmuring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dead	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 dead	punct
30	Romance	romance	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dead	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 dead	cop
32	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 murmuring	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Candle	murmuring			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	listen	past	everybody			except the poor Catherine Wheel	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	shake	past · progressive	the poor Catherine Wheel	Wheel's head	still		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	is in a quote	present	Romance	murmuring not said here		dead property	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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