The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 38
“What is a sensitive person?” said the Cracker to the Roman Candle.
Who acts: sensitive person · What happens: be, say · To what, where: sensitive person, Roman Candle · 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 (sensitive person), 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 | _ | 6 person | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 person | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 person | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 5 | sensitive | sensitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 person | amod |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 person | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 person | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Cracker | det |
| 11 | Cracker | Cracker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Candle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Candle | det |
| 14 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Candle | amod |
| 15 | Candle | Candle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a sensitive person | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | a sensitive person | the Roman Candle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to candle=Recipient |
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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