The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 87

“He must have a truly romantic nature,” said the Catherine Wheel, “for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about”; and she heaved a deep sigh, and thought about the deal box.

Who acts: Rocket, Catherine Wheel, nothing, Wheel · What happens: have, say, weep, be, heave, think · To what, where: romantic nature, deep sigh · 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 (Rocket, Catherine Wheel, nothing, Wheel), 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	_	4 have	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 nature	det
6	truly	truly	ADV	_	7 romantic	advmod
7	romantic	romantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nature	amod
8	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Wheel	det
13	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Wheel	compound
14	Wheel	Wheel	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 “	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 weeps	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 weeps	nsubj
19	weeps	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 “	advcl
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 is	advmod
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 is	expl
22	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 weeps	advcl
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 is	nsubj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 all	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 nothing	nmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 weep	mark
27	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 nothing	acl
28	about	about	ADP	_	27 weep	obl
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 about	punct
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 heaved	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 heaved	cc
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 heaved	nsubj
33	heaved	heave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 sigh	det
35	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sigh	amod
36	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heaved	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 thought	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 thought	cc
39	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 heaved	conj
40	about	about	ADP	_	43 box	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 box	det
42	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 box	compound
43	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 thought	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	must	Rocket	a romantic nature			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the Catherine Wheel				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	weep in a quote	present	Rocket				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	be in a quote	present	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	weep in a quote	to-infinitive	nothing not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	heave	past	Wheel	a deep sigh			vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme
7	think speech: other	past	Wheel not said here			about the deal box	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about box=Topic

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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