The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 39
Why, I don’t believe you have even got silver buckles to your shoes as the Chamberlain’s nephew has”; and she got up from her chair and went into the house.
Who acts: I, you, silver, nephew, girl · What happens: not believe, get, buckle, have, get up, go · To what, where: chair, house · 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 (I, you, silver, nephew), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 believe | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 believe | advmod |
| 6 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | aux |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 got | advmod |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 believe | ccomp |
| 11 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 buckles | nsubj |
| 12 | buckles | buckle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 shoes | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 buckles | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 has | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Chamberlain | det |
| 18 | Chamberlain | Chamberlain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Chamberlain | case |
| 20 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 has | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 buckles | advcl |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 has | punct |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 got | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 got | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 got | nsubj |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | parataxis |
| 27 | up | up | ADV | _ | 26 got | advmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 chair | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 chair | nmod:poss |
| 30 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 got | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 went | cc |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 got | conj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 house | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 house | det |
| 35 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | present · do-support | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | get | present · perfect | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | buckle | present | silver | to your shoes | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to shoe=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | present | the Chamberlain's nephew | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | get up in a quote | past | girl | girl's chair | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from chair=Destination | ||||
| 6 | go in a quote | past | girl not said here | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location |
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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