The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 72
“But they have not lost their only son,” said the Roman Candle; “no misfortune has happened to them at all.”
Who acts: people, Roman Candle, misfortune · What happens: not lose, say, happen · To what, where: only son, people, all · 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 (people, Roman Candle, misfortune), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 lost | cc |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lost | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 lost | advmod |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 son | amod |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lost | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 lost | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Candle | det |
| 14 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Candle | amod |
| 15 | Candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 happened | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 happened | punct |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 misfortune | det |
| 19 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 happened | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 happened | aux |
| 21 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 happened | obl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 all | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 happened | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lose in a quote | present · perfect | people | people's only son | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Roman Candle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | happen in a quote | present · perfect | no misfortune | people | all | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location |
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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