The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 132
“Really it is quite like a croak, and croaking is of course the most musical sound in the world.
Who acts: voice, croaking · What happens: be · To what, where: world
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 (voice, croaking), 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 croak | punct |
| 2 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 8 croak | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 croak | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 croak | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 croak | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 croak | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 croak | det |
| 8 | croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sound | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sound | cc |
| 11 | croaking | croaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sound | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sound | cop |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sound | case |
| 14 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 of | fixed |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sound | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 musical | advmod |
| 17 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sound | amod |
| 18 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 croak | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sound | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 croak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | voice | like a croak and the musical sound | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | croaking | the world | of the musical sound | 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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