The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 62
It is very much in my way at home, and it is in such bad repair that I could not get anything for it if I sold it.
Who acts: funeral, I · What happens: be, not get, sell · To what, where: way, such bad repair, anything, funeral
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 (funeral, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg902:481): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 way | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 way | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 way | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 repair | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 repair | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 repair | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 repair | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 repair | case |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 repair | amod |
| 16 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 repair | amod |
| 17 | repair | repair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 way | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 get | advmod |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 repair | advcl |
| 23 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 get | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 get | obl |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 sold | mark |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 sold | nsubj |
| 28 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | advcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sold | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | funeral | my way and such bad repair | at home | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | funeral | such bad repair | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not get | could | I | anything | for funeral | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent anything=Theme for it=Source | |||
| 4 | sell a condition, not said to happen | past | I | funeral | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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