The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 40
“Pray, what are you laughing at?” inquired the Rocket; “I am not laughing.”
Who acts: you, Rocket · What happens: laugh, inquire, not laugh · To what, where: Pray · 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, Rocket), 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 | _ | 2 Pray | punct |
| 2 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 inquired | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughing | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 laughing | obj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 laughing | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 laughing | nsubj |
| 7 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Pray | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 laughing | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughing | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pray | punct |
| 11 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Rocket | det |
| 13 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 inquired | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 laughing | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 laughing | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 laughing | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 laughing | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 laughing | advmod |
| 19 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 inquired | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 laughing | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 laughing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh in a quote | present · progressive | you | Pray | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the Rocket | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not laugh in a quote | present · progressive | the Rocket = rocket | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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