The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 59
“Delightful!” he cried, “I shall go on like this for ever.
Who acts: fire · What happens: cry, go on · 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 (fire), 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 Delightful | punct |
| 2 | Delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Delightful | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Delightful | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 this | case |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 ever | case |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 go | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | fire | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go on in a quote | shall | fire | like this | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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