The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 89
They were extremely practical, and whenever they objected to anything they called it humbug.
Who acts: Humbug · What happens: be, object, call · To what, where: anything, 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 (Humbug), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 practical | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 practical | cop |
| 3 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 4 practical | advmod |
| 4 | practical | practical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 objected | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 objected | cc |
| 7 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 objected | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 objected | nsubj |
| 9 | objected | object | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 practical | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 anything | case |
| 11 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 objected | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 called | nsubj |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 anything | acl:relcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 called | obj |
| 15 | humbug | humbug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 practical | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Humbug | extremely, practical property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | object speech: other | past | Humbug | anything | whenever property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to anything=Recipient | |||
| 3 | call | past | Humbug | sigh | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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