The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 124
“Any place you love is the world to you,” exclaimed a pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it.
Who acts: you, place, pensive Catherine Wheel, love · What happens: love, be, exclaim, attach, pride, break · To what, where: place, world, you, pensive Catherine Wheel, Squib, broken heart · 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, place, pensive Catherine Wheel, love), 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 | _ | 8 world | punct |
| 2 | Any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 place | det |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 world | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 love | nsubj |
| 5 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 place | acl:relcl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 world | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 world | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 world | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 world | punct |
| 13 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Wheel | det |
| 15 | pensive | pensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Wheel | amod |
| 16 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Wheel | compound |
| 17 | Wheel | Wheel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 exclaimed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 attached | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 attached | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 attached | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 attached | aux:pass |
| 22 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Wheel | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 box | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 box | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 box | amod |
| 26 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 box | compound |
| 27 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 attached | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 life | case |
| 29 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 life | amod |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 box | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 prided | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 prided | cc |
| 33 | prided | pride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 34 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 prided | obj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 heart | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 heart | nmod:poss |
| 37 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 heart | amod |
| 38 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 prided | obl |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 fashionable | punct |
| 40 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 fashionable | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 fashionable | cc |
| 42 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 fashionable | nsubj |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 fashionable | cop |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 fashionable | advmod |
| 45 | fashionable | fashionable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 prided | conj |
| 46 | any | any | ADV | _ | 47 more | advmod |
| 47 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 45 fashionable | advmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 killed | punct |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 poets | det |
| 50 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 51 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 killed | aux |
| 52 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 fashionable | parataxis |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 killed | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love in a quote | present | you | any place not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | any place | the world | you | tree rules | |||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | a pensive Catherine Wheel | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | attach | past · perfect · passive | a pensive Catherine Wheel | to a old deal box in early life | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to box=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | pride | past | Squib | Squib's broken heart | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | not is in a quote | present | love | fashionable property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | kill in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the poets | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer it=Result |
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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