The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 61
Round the garden ran a very lofty wall, but I never cared to ask what lay beyond it, everything about me was so beautiful.
Who acts: I, everything · What happens: run, not care, ask, lie, be · To what, where: lofty wall, garden · 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, everything), 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 | Round | round | ADP | _ | 3 garden | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 garden | det |
| 3 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wall | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 lofty | advmod |
| 7 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wall | amod |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cared | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 cared | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 cared | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 cared | advmod |
| 13 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 ask | mark |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cared | xcomp |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ask | ccomp |
| 18 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lay | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 beautiful | punct |
| 21 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 26 beautiful | nsubj |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 everything | nmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 beautiful | cop |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 beautiful | advmod |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cared | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | a lofty wall | the garden | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent wall=Theme round garden=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not care | past | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | lie | past | garden | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beyond it=Location | |||||
| 5 | is | past | everything | beautiful 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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