The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 71
But there is no red rose in my garden, so I shall sit lonely, and she will pass me by.
Who acts: red rose, I, sorrow · What happens: be, sit, pass · To what, where: me
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 (red rose, I, sorrow), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 is | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 rose | det |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rose | amod |
| 6 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 garden | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 garden | nmod:poss |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sit | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 sit | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sit | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 sit | aux |
| 14 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 is | parataxis |
| 15 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sit | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pass | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pass | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pass | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 pass | aux |
| 20 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sit | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 pass | obj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 pass | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no red rose in my garden | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | shall | I | lonely property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pass | future | sorrow | me | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Trajectory |
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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