The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 29
The newspapers wrote about his performance in very flattering terms.
Who acts: newspapers, dead · What happens: write, perform · To what, where: flattering terms
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 (newspapers, dead), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 newspapers | det |
| 2 | newspapers | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wrote | nsubj |
| 3 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 performance | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 performance | nmod:poss |
| 6 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 terms | case |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 flattering | advmod |
| 9 | flattering | flattering | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 terms | amod |
| 10 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wrote | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | the newspapers | flattering terms | about dead's performance | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about performance=Topic | |||
| 2 | perform | dead | nom performance «communication transitive»: poss=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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