The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 42
In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to Philosophy and study Metaphysics.”
Who acts: fact, everything · What happens: be, go back · To what, where: fact, everything
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 (fact, everything), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 fact | case |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 unpractical | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fact | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 unpractical | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 unpractical | cop |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 unpractical | advmod |
| 7 | unpractical | unpractical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 everything | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 age | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 age | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 and | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 age | case |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 age | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 age | det |
| 14 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 unpractical | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 practical | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 practical | cop |
| 17 | practical | practical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 age | acl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 everything | cop |
| 19 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 23 go | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 everything | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 go | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | aux |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Philosophy | case |
| 26 | Philosophy | philosophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Metaphysics | cc |
| 28 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Metaphysics | compound |
| 29 | Metaphysics | metaphysic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 Philosophy | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fact | fact | as this age | unpractical property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | fact not said here | practical property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | everything | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go back | shall | everything | to Philosophy and study Metaphysics result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to philosophy=Result |
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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