The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 77
Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace.
Who acts: Pearls · What happens: not buy, set · To what, where: pain, marketplace
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 (Pearls), 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 | Pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 buy | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pomegranates | cc |
| 3 | pomegranates | pomegranate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pearls | conj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 buy | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 buy | advmod |
| 6 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 buy | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 set | cc |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 set | aux:pass |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 set | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 buy | conj |
| 13 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 set | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 marketplace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 marketplace | det |
| 16 | marketplace | marketplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not buy | can | Pearls and pomegranates | pain | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set | present · passive | pain | the marketplace | forth property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in marketplace=Destination |
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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