The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 50
The Reed used to like the rain, but that was merely her selfishness.”
Who acts: Reed, that · What happens: use, like, be · To what, where: rain, selfishness
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 (Reed, that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Reed | det |
| 2 | Reed | reed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | nsubj |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 like | mark |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rain | det |
| 7 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 selfishness | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 selfishness | cc |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 selfishness | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 selfishness | cop |
| 12 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 14 selfishness | advmod |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 selfishness | nmod:poss |
| 14 | selfishness | selfishness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 selfishness | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 selfishness | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | the Reed | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | like | to-infinitive | the Reed not said here | the rain | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rain=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | that | Reed's selfishness | merely property | 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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