The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 96
‘I can easily put it in repair, as I have a plank of wood in the house.’
Who acts: I · What happens: put, have · To what, where: wheelbarrow, repair, plank, house
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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux |
| 4 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 repair | case |
| 8 | repair | repair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 plank | det |
| 14 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wood | case |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plank | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | can | I | wheelbarrow | repair | easily property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in repair=Destination | ||
| 2 | have | present | I | a plank of wood | the house | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plank=Patient |
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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