The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 14
“Quite dead,” whispered the Catherine Wheel, and she went off to sleep.
Who acts: dead, Wheel · What happens: whisper, go off, sleep · To what, where: Catherine Wheel
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 (dead, Wheel), 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 | _ | 3 dead | punct |
| 2 | Quite | quite | ADV | _ | 3 dead | advmod |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 whispered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dead | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dead | punct |
| 6 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Wheel | det |
| 8 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Wheel | compound |
| 9 | Wheel | Wheel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 whispered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 whispered | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 went | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sleep | mark |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 went | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | dead | the Catherine Wheel | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go off | past | Wheel | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | Wheel not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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