The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 128
He is trying to finish a play for the Director of the Theatre, but he is too cold to write any more.
Who acts: Swallow · What happens: try, finish, be, write · To what, where: play
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Swallow), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 trying | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 trying | aux |
| 3 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 finish | mark |
| 5 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 trying | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 play | det |
| 7 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finish | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Director | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Director | det |
| 10 | Director | director | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finish | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Theatre | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Theatre | det |
| 13 | Theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Director | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cold | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 cold | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cold | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 cold | cop |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 cold | advmod |
| 19 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 trying | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 write | mark |
| 21 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 cold | advcl |
| 22 | any | any | ADV | _ | 23 more | advmod |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 write | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present · progressive | Swallow | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | finish not said to happen | to-infinitive | Swallow not said here | a play | for the Director of the Theatre | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality play=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is | present | Swallow | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | write | to-infinitive | Swallow not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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