The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 7
I know nothing about the feelings of parents,” said the Water-rat; “I am not a family man.
Who acts: I, Water rat · What happens: know, say, not be · To what, where: nothing, family man · 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, Water rat), 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 | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 know | obj |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 feelings | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 feelings | det |
| 6 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 nothing | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 parents | case |
| 8 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 feelings | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rat | det |
| 13 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 rat | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Water | punct |
| 15 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 man | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 man | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 man | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 man | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 man | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 man | compound |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | nothing | about the feelings of parents | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Water rat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is a | present | I | a family man | tree rules |
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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