The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 45
“We must really issue a proclamation that birds are not to be allowed to die here.”
Who acts: birds · What happens: not allow, die · To what, where: birds
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 (birds), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 issue | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 issue | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 issue | aux |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 issue | advmod |
| 5 | issue | issue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 proclamation | det |
| 7 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 issue | appos |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 allowed | obj |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 allowed | aux:pass |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 allowed | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 allowed | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 allowed | aux:pass |
| 14 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 proclamation | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 die | mark |
| 16 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 allowed | xcomp |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 die | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 issue | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 issue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow in a quote | present · passive | birds | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | die not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | birds not said here | here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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