The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 47
I certainly will not allow Hans’ nature to be spoiled.
Who acts: I · What happens: not allow, spoil · To what, where: nature, Hans
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), 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 | 5 allow | nsubj |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 allow | advmod |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 allow | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 allow | advmod |
| 5 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 allow | iobj |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PART | _ | 8 nature | mark |
| 8 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 allow | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 spoiled | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 spoiled | aux:pass |
| 11 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 nature | acl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 allow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | future | I | nature | Hans | certainly property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent han=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | spoil | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | nature not said here | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V» |
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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