The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 64
I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.”
Who acts: I, secrets, life · What happens: read, write, be, want · To what, where: all, wise men, mine, red rose
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 (I, secrets, life), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 read | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 read | aux |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 read | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 written | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 men | det |
| 7 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 written | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 written | aux |
| 10 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 read | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mine | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mine | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 secrets | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 secrets | det |
| 15 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 mine | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 philosophy | case |
| 17 | philosophy | philosophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 secrets | nmod |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 mine | cop |
| 19 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 written | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 made | punct |
| 21 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 31 made | cc |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 want | case |
| 23 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 rose | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 rose | det |
| 26 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 rose | amod |
| 27 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 want | nmod |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 made | cop |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 life | nmod:poss |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | nsubj |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 read | conj |
| 32 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 made | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present · perfect | I | all | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | write | present · perfect · passive | the wise men | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | all secrets of philosophy | mine | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | my life | for want of a red rose; make, wretched property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | want | a red rose | nom want «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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