The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 22
But I am afraid I shall never have such beautiful ideas as you have.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, not have, have · To what, where: such beautiful ideas
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, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 afraid | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 have | advmod |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | ccomp |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ideas | amod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ideas | amod |
| 11 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not have | shall | I | such beautiful ideas | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | present | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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