The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 125

They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised.

Who acts: poets, nobody, I · What happens: write, believe, not be · To what, where: poets

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 (poets, nobody, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	2 wrote	advmod
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 believed	mark
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 believed	nsubj
9	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wrote	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 believed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 surprised	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 surprised	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 surprised	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 surprised	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 surprised	advmod
16	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wrote	parataxis
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	write	past	poets = poet		about place	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
2	believe	past	nobody	poets = poet		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	not is	present	I		surprised property	tree rules

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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