The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 106
Is there no way by which I can get it?”
Who acts: way, I · What happens: be, get · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, 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 | Is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 1 Is | expl |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Is | nsubj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 get | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 way | acl:relcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 get | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no way | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | can | I | way | by no way | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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