The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 144
Now I can finish my play,” and he looked quite happy.
Who acts: I, man, my · What happens: finish, look, play · 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 (I, man, my), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 finish | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 finish | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 finish | aux |
| 4 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 play | nmod:poss |
| 6 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finish | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 finish | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 finish | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finish | conj |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 happy | advmod |
| 13 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 looked | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | can | I | my play | now | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector play=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | look in a quote | past | man | happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | play | my | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=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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