The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 21
“The Happy Prince never dreams of crying for anything.”
Who acts: Happy Prince · What happens: not dream, cry
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 (Happy Prince), 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 | _ | 6 dreams | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 3 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Prince | amod |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dreams | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 dreams | advmod |
| 6 | dreams | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 crying | mark |
| 8 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 dreams | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 anything | case |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 crying | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dreams | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 dreams | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dream in a quote | present | the Happy Prince | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | gerund | the Happy Prince not said here | for anything | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for anything=Recipient |
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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