The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 11
Do you know that I always work better after hearing the birds sing?’
Who acts: you, I, birds · What happens: know, work, hear, sing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, birds), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 work | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 work | nsubj |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 work | advmod |
| 7 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | ccomp |
| 8 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 work | advmod |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 hearing | mark |
| 10 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 work | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 birds | det |
| 12 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sing | nsubj |
| 13 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hearing | ccomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | work | present | I | always, well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear | gerund | I not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | present | the birds | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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