The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 148
“Somebody must listen,” answered the Frog, “and I like to do all the talking myself.
Who acts: Somebody, Frog · What happens: listen, answer, like, do · To what, where: talking · 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 (Somebody, Frog), 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 | _ | 4 listen | punct |
| 2 | Somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 listen | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 listen | aux |
| 4 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 listen | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 listen | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Frog | det |
| 9 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 like | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 like | nsubj |
| 14 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 like | xcomp |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 talking | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 talking | det |
| 19 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obj |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 16 do | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | must | Somebody | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Frog | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | like in a quote | present | the Frog = frog | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Frog = frog not said here | all talking | myself obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talking=Eventuality |
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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