The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 62
“Well, really,” exclaimed a small Fire-balloon, “why not?
Who acts: small Fire balloon · What happens: not exclaim
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 (small Fire balloon), 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 | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 exclaimed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 exclaimed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 really | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 really | punct |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 balloon | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 balloon | amod |
| 10 | Fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 balloon | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Fire | punct |
| 12 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exclaimed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 not | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 not | punct |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 not | advmod |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 exclaimed | advmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not exclaim speech: express | past | a small Fire balloon | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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