The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 48
I am his best friend, and I will always watch over him, and see that he is not led into any temptations.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, watch, see, not lead · To what, where: best friend, cask, temptations · 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), 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 friend | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 friend | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 friend | amod |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 watch | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 watch | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 watch | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 watch | aux |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 watch | advmod |
| 11 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 friend | parataxis |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 watch | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 watch | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 led | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 led | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 led | aux:pass |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 led | advmod |
| 21 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 see | ccomp |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 temptations | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 temptations | det |
| 24 | temptations | temptation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 led | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | cask's best friend | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | watch | future | I | over cask; always property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not lead | present · passive | cask | any temptations | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into temptation=Destination |
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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