The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 8
In fact, I have never been married, and I never intend to be.
Who acts: I · What happens: not marry, not intend, be · To what, where: I, fact
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 fact | case |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 married | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fact | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 married | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 married | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 married | advmod |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 married | aux:pass |
| 8 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 intend | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 intend | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 intend | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 intend | advmod |
| 13 | intend | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 married | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 be | mark |
| 15 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 intend | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not marry | present · perfect · passive | I | fact | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not intend | present | I | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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