The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 19
“If so, I will listen to it, for I am extremely fond of fiction.”
Who acts: story · What happens: listen, be · To what, where: subject
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 (story), 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 | _ | 7 listen | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 so | mark |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 listen | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 so | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 listen | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 listen | aux |
| 7 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 listen | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fond | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 fond | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 fond | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fond | cop |
| 14 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 15 fond | advmod |
| 15 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 listen | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fiction | case |
| 17 | fiction | fiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fond | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 listen | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | future | the story = story | subject | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the story = story | of fiction; extremely, fond property | tree rules |
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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