The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 42
“Hallo!” cried one of the boys, “look at this old stick!
Who acts: Hallo · What happens: cry, look · To what, where: one · 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 (Hallo), 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 | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 2 | Hallo | hallo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 cried | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 boys | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boys | det |
| 9 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 stick | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 stick | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stick | amod |
| 16 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Hallo | one of the boys | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | infinitive | Hallo not said here | at this old stick | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stick=Theme |
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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