The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 128
Romance is a thing of the past.”
Who acts: Romance · What happens: be · To what, where: thing
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 (Romance), 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 | Romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thing | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 past | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 past | det |
| 7 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thing | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Romance | a thing | of the past | 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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