The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 41
I am sure the clergyman himself could not say such beautiful things as you do, though he does live in a three-storied house, and wear a gold ring on his little finger.’
Who acts: I, clergyman, you · What happens: be, not say, do, live, story, wear · To what, where: such beautiful things, storied house, gold ring, little finger · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, clergyman, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 clergyman | det |
| 5 | clergyman | clergyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 say | nsubj |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 say | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 say | advmod |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 say | obj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 live | punct |
| 17 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 live | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 live | nsubj |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 live | aux |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 say | ccomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 storied | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 three | punct |
| 25 | storied | story | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 house | amod |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 live | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wear | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 wear | cc |
| 29 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 say | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 ring | det |
| 31 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ring | compound |
| 32 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wear | obj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 finger | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 finger | nmod:poss |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 finger | amod |
| 36 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wear | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 38 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | could | the clergyman | such beautiful things | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | live | present · do-support | clergyman | a storied house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 5 | story | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | wear | infinitive | the clergyman not said here | a gold ring | clergyman's little finger | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |
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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