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The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 37

“I admit that she is domestic,” he continued, “but I love travelling, and my wife, consequently, should love travelling also.”

Who acts: I, Reed, wind, Swallow, wife · What happens: admit, be, continue, love, travel · 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 (I, Reed, wind, 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

punctnsubjccompmarknsubjcopccomppunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctccnsubjconjxcomppunctccnmod:possnsubjpunctadvmodpunctauxconjxcompadvmodpunctpunctroot“PUNCTIPRONadmitVERBthatSCONJshePRONisAUXdomesticADJ,PUNCT”PUNCThePRONcontinuedVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTbutCCONJIPRONloveVERBtravellingVERB,PUNCTandCCONJmyPRONwifeNOUN,PUNCTconsequentlyADV,PUNCTshouldAUXloveVERBtravellingVERBalsoADV.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_3 admitpunct
2IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs3 admitnsubj
3admitadmitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 continuedccomp
4thatthatSCONJ_7 domesticmark
5sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 domesticnsubj
6isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 domesticcop
7domesticdomesticADJDegree=Pos3 admitccomp
8,,PUNCT_3 admitpunct
9”"PUNCT_3 admitpunct
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 continuednsubj
11continuedcontinueVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12,,PUNCT_16 lovepunct
13“"PUNCT_16 lovepunct
14butbutCCONJ_16 lovecc
15IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs16 lovensubj
16loveloveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 continuedconj
17travellingtravelVERBVerbForm=Ger16 lovexcomp
18,,PUNCT_26 lovepunct
19andandCCONJ_26 lovecc
20mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 wifenmod:poss
21wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing26 lovensubj
22,,PUNCT_21 wifepunct
23consequentlyconsequentlyADV_21 wifeadvmod
24,,PUNCT_21 wifepunct
25shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin26 loveaux
26loveloveVERBVerbForm=Inf11 continuedconj
27travellingtravelVERBVerbForm=Ger26 lovexcomp
28alsoalsoADV_27 travellingadvmod
29..PUNCT_11 continuedpunct
30”"PUNCT_11 continuedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1admit speech: other in a quotepresentIvn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2is in a quotepresentReeddomestic propertytree rules
3continuepastwindvn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4love in a quotepresentSwallowvn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5travel not said to happen, in a quotegerundSwallow not said herevn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6love in a quoteshouldmy wifevn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7travel not said to happen, in a quotegerundmy wife not said herevn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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