The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 3
Really, considering that I am going to give you my wheelbarrow, I think you might work harder.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: consider, go, give, think, work · To what, where: wheelbarrow, you · 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 (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 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 3 considering | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Really | punct |
| 3 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 going | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 going | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | aux |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 considering | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 going | xcomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wheelbarrow | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 think | nsubj |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 considering | parataxis |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 work | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 work | aux |
| 18 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 think | ccomp |
| 19 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 work | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 considering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | gerund | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | I not said here | my wheelbarrow | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wheelbarrow=Theme | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | work | might | you | hard property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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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