The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 27
It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name”; and he leaned down and plucked it.
Who acts: luck, I, piece · What happens: be, have, learn down, pluck · To what, where: long Latin name, luck · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (luck, I, piece), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beautiful | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 sure | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 sure | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sure | cop |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beautiful | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 has | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sure | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 name | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 name | amod |
| 13 | Latin | Latin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 name | amod |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | obj |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 name | punct |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 leaned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 leaned | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 leaned | nsubj |
| 19 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | parataxis |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 leaned | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 plucked | cc |
| 22 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 leaned | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 plucked | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | luck | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | luck | a long Latin name | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 4 | learn down in a quote | past | piece | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | pluck in a quote | past | piece not said here | luck | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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