The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 143
“I am beginning to be appreciated,” he cried; “this is from some great admirer.
Who acts: man, this · What happens: begin, appreciate, cry, be · To what, where: great admirer · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, this), 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 | _ | 4 beginning | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 beginning | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beginning | aux |
| 4 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cried | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 appreciated | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 appreciated | aux:pass |
| 7 | appreciated | appreciate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 beginning | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beginning | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 beginning | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 admirer | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 admirer | punct |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 admirer | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 admirer | cop |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 admirer | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 admirer | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 admirer | amod |
| 19 | admirer | admirer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin in a quote | present · progressive | man | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | appreciate in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | man not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V» | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | this | some great admirer | tree rules |
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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