The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 127
I remember myself once—But it is no matter now.
Who acts: I, it · What happens: remember, be · To what, where: myself, matter
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 (I, it), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 remember | nsubj |
| 2 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 remember | obj |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 remember | advmod |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 matter | punct |
| 6 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 matter | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 matter | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 matter | cop |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 matter | det |
| 10 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remember | parataxis |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 remember | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present | I | myself | now | once property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | ||
| 2 | is a | present | it | no matter | 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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