The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 39

“A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people’s toes,” answered the Roman Candle in a low whisper; and the Cracker nearly exploded with laughter.

Who acts: person, Roman Candle, Cracker · What happens: have, tread, answer, explode · To what, where: corns, toes, low whisper · 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 (person, Roman Candle, Cracker), 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	_	21 answered	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 answered	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 has	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 has	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 person	acl:relcl
9	corns	corn	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 has	obj
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	9 corns	nmod:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 treads	punct
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 treads	advmod
13	treads	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 has	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 toes	case
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 people	amod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 toes	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 people	case
18	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 treads	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 treads	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct
21	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Candle	det
23	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Candle	amod
24	Candle	Candle	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 answered	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 whisper	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 whisper	det
27	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 whisper	amod
28	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 answered	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 exploded	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 exploded	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Cracker	det
32	Cracker	Cracker	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 exploded	nsubj
33	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	34 exploded	advmod
34	exploded	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 answered	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 laughter	case
36	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 exploded	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	a person	corns person			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient
2	tread in a quote	present	a person not said here		other people's toes	always property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory
3	answer speech: assert	past	the Roman Candle		a low whisper		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	explode	past	the Cracker			with laughter; nearly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with laughter=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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