The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 79
That is the wonderful thing about it, but I am afraid you don’t understand the poetry of life.
Who acts: That, I, you · What happens: be, not understand · To what, where: wonderful thing, poetry
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 (That, I, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thing | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 afraid | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 afraid | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 afraid | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 afraid | cop |
| 12 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | advcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 understand | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 understand | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 understand | advmod |
| 16 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 afraid | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 poetry | det |
| 18 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 understand | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 poetry | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | the wonderful thing | about friendship | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | I | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not understand | present · do-support | you | the poetry of life | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer poetry=Stimulus |
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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