The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 34
“You were talking about yourself,” replied the Roman Candle.
Who acts: You, Roman Candle · What happens: talk, reply · 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 (You, Roman Candle), 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 talking | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 talking | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 talking | aux |
| 4 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 yourself | case |
| 6 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 talking | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 talking | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 talking | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Candle | det |
| 11 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Candle | amod |
| 12 | Candle | Candle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk in a quote | past · progressive | You | about yourself | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about yourself=Topic | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Roman Candle | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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