The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 24
“How do you know?” said the Mathematical Master, “you have never seen one.”
Who acts: you, Mathematical Master · What happens: know, say, not see · To what, where: one · 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 (you, Mathematical Master), 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 | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 know | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Master | det |
| 10 | Mathematical | Mathematical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Master | amod |
| 11 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seen | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 seen | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 seen | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 seen | advmod |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 seen | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Mathematical Master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not see in a quote | present · perfect | you | one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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