The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 38

“Ah! the higher things of life, how fine they are!” said the Duck; “and that reminds me how hungry I feel”: and she swam away down the stream, saying, “Quack, quack, quack.”

Who acts: things, higher things, that, Duck · What happens: be, say, remind, feel, swim away · To what, where: higher things, Duck, stream, Quack · 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 (things, higher things, that, Duck), 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	_	16 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 things	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 things	det
5	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 said	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 life	case
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 things	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fine	punct
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 fine	advmod
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	conj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fine	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 things	cop
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 are	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 are	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Duck	det
18	Duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 reminds	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 reminds	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 reminds	cc
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 reminds	nsubj
23	reminds	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 reminds	obj
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 hungry	advmod
26	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 reminds	xcomp
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 feel	nsubj
28	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 reminds	parataxis
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 feel	punct
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 swam	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 swam	cc
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 swam	nsubj
33	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	conj
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 swam	advmod
35	down	down	ADP	_	37 stream	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 stream	det
37	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 swam	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 saying	punct
39	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 swam	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 Quack	punct
41	“	"	PUNCT	_	42 Quack	punct
42	Quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 saying	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 quack	punct
44	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 Quack	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 quack	punct
46	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 Quack	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 Quack	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the higher things			of life	tree rules
2	be in a quote		things = thing					tree rules
3	say speech: express	past	the higher things	the Duck				tree rules
4	remind speech: other in a quote	present	that		the higher things = thing		hungry property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	feel in a quote	present	the higher things = thing					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	swim away	past	Duck			the stream	away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stream=Trajectory
7	say speech: assert	gerund	Duck not said here	Quack and quack and quack				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent quack=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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