The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 75
My feet are fastened to this pedestal and I cannot move.”
Who acts: I · What happens: fasten, not move · To what, where: feet
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), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 feet | nmod:poss |
| 2 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fastened | aux:pass |
| 4 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 pedestal | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 pedestal | det |
| 7 | pedestal | pedestal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fastened | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 move | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 move | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 move | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 move | advmod |
| 12 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fastened | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fastened | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | present · passive | My feet | to this pedestal | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to pedestal=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | not move | can | I | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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