The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 140
“A delightful voice, certainly,” continued the Frog; “I hope you will come over to the duck-pond.
Who acts: delightful voice, Ahem, you · What happens: continue, hope, come over · To what, where: Frog, duck pond · 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 (delightful voice, Ahem, you), 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 | _ | 9 continued | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 voice | det |
| 3 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 voice | amod |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 continued | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 voice | punct |
| 6 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 voice | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 voice | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 voice | punct |
| 9 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Frog | det |
| 11 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 continued | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 hope | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 hope | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 hope | nsubj |
| 15 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 continued | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hope | ccomp |
| 19 | over | over | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 pond | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 pond | det |
| 22 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pond | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 duck | punct |
| 24 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | a delightful voice | the Frog | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent frog=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hope in a quote | present | Ahem and ahem = ahem | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come over in a quote | future | you | the duck pond | over property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial_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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