The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 30
Indeed, the Court Gazette called him a triumph of Pylotechnic art.”
Who acts: Court Gazette, Pylotechnic art · What happens: call, triumph · To what, where: dead · 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 (Court Gazette, Pylotechnic art), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 called | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Gazette | det |
| 4 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Gazette | compound |
| 5 | Gazette | Gazette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | nsubj |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 called | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 triumph | det |
| 9 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 art | case |
| 11 | Pylotechnic | Pylotechnic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 art | compound |
| 12 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 triumph | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | the Court Gazette | dead | indeed property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | triumph | Pylotechnic art | nom triumph «event intransitive»: of=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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