The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 161

“There is no good talking to him,” said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; “no good at all, for he has gone away.”

Who acts: good, Dragon fly, fly · What happens: be, talk, say, sit, go away · To what, where: Court, top · 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 (good, Dragon fly, fly), 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 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 good	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 is	nsubj
6	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 good	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 talking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fly	det
13	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 fly	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Dragon	punct
15	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sitting	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 sitting	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sitting	aux
19	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 fly	acl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 top	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 top	det
22	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sitting	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 bulrush	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bulrush	det
25	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bulrush	amod
26	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bulrush	amod
27	bulrush	bulrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 top	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 good	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 good	punct
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 good	det
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	parataxis
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 all	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 good	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 gone	punct
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 gone	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 gone	nsubj
37	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 gone	aux
38	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	parataxis
39	away	away	ADV	_	38 gone	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 gone	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	38 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	no good		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk in a quote	gerund	no good not said here	Court			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	a Dragon fly				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sit	past · progressive	a Dragon fly		the top of a large brown bulrush		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location
5	go away in a quote	present · perfect	fly			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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