The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 56
However, he was so young that you must excuse him.”
Who acts: Hans, you · What happens: be, excuse · To what, where: 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 (Hans, 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 young | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 young | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 young | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 young | advmod |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 excuse | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 excuse | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 excuse | aux |
| 10 | excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 young | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 excuse | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 young | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hans | however, young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | excuse | must | you | Hans | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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