The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 6
Of course I should not dream of doing so if I were not your friend.
Who acts: I · What happens: not dream, do, not be · To what, where: friend
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), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 course | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dream | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 dream | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 dream | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 dream | advmod |
| 6 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 doing | mark |
| 8 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 dream | advcl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 doing | advmod |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 friend | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 friend | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 friend | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 friend | advmod |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friend | nmod:poss |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doing | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dream | should | I | of course | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | gerund | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is a a condition, not said to happen | past | I | your friend | 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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