The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 22

“Well, well,” said the Duck, who was of a very peaceable disposition, and never quarrelled with any one, “everybody has different tastes.

Who acts: Duck, everybody · What happens: say, be, not quarrell, have · To what, where: different tastes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duck, everybody), 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 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	well	well	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Duck	det
9	Duck	Duck	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 disposition	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 disposition	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 disposition	cop
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 disposition	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 disposition	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 peaceable	advmod
16	peaceable	peaceable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 disposition	amod
17	disposition	disposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Duck	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 quarrelled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 quarrelled	cc
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 quarrelled	advmod
21	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 one	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 quarrelled	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 has	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 has	punct
27	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	28 has	nsubj
28	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 quarrelled	conj
29	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tastes	amod
30	tastes	taste	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 has	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Duck			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the Duck		of a peaceable disposition	tree rules
3	not quarrell	past	the Duck not said here		with any one	tree rules
4	have in a quote	present	everybody	different tastes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient

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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