The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 125
“Well, after all there is nothing like mud.
What happens: be · To what, where: nothing
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: 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 | _ | 8 nothing | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 nothing | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 is | mark |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 is | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 nothing | cop |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 mud | case |
| 10 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nothing | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | nothing | like mud | 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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