The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 80
“Why, you don’t even know him,” growled the Roman Candle.
Who acts: you · What happens: not know, growl · To what, where: 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 (you), 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 growled | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 know | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 know | advmod |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 know | advmod |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 growled | parataxis |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 know | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 12 | growled | growl | 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 growled | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 growled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | you | person | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | growl | past | the Roman Candle | tree rules |
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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