The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 3
They were so young that they did not know what an advantage it is to be in society at all.
Who acts: ducks, advantage · What happens: be, not know · To what, where: society
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 (ducks, advantage), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 young | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 young | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 young | advmod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 know | advmod |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 young | advcl |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 know | obj |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 advantage | det |
| 12 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 society | nsubj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 society | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 society | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 society | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 society | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 society | case |
| 18 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 society | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | ducks = duck | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | ducks = duck | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | present | a advantage | society | at all | 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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