The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 14
“I should expect my devoted friend to be devoted to me, of course.”
Who acts: silly question · What happens: expect, devote · To what, where: devoted friend, silly question
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silly question), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 expect | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 expect | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 expect | aux |
| 4 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friend | nmod:poss |
| 6 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 friend | amod |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expect | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 devoted | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 devoted | aux:pass |
| 10 | devoted | devote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 expect | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 devoted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 of | punct |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 devoted | obl |
| 15 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 of | fixed |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expect | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect in a quote | should | what silly question = question | my devoted friend | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | ||||
| 2 | devote in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | what silly question = question not said here | what silly question = question | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: to i=Goal |
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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