The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 60
“Every good story-teller nowadays starts with the end, and then goes on to the beginning, and concludes with the middle.
Who acts: good story teller · What happens: nowaday, start, go on, conclude · 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 (good story teller), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 nowadays | punct |
| 2 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 teller | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 teller | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 teller | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
| 6 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nowadays | nsubj |
| 7 | nowadays | nowaday | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 nowadays | ccomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 starts | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 goes | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 goes | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 goes | advmod |
| 15 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 nowadays | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADV | _ | 15 goes | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 beginning | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 beginning | det |
| 19 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 goes | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 concludes | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 concludes | cc |
| 22 | concludes | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 nowadays | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 middle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 middle | det |
| 25 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 concludes | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 nowadays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nowaday in a quote | present | every good story teller | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | start in a quote | present | every good story teller not said here | with the end | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with end=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | go on in a quote | present | every good story teller not said here | to the beginning; then | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | conclude in a quote | present | every good story teller not said here | with the middle | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with middle=Subeventuality |
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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