The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 69
I really don’t know,” replied the Linnet; “and I am sure that I don’t care.”
Who acts: I · What happens: not know, reply, be, not care · To what, where: Linnet · 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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 know | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Linnet | det |
| 10 | Linnet | linnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 sure | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sure | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sure | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 sure | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sure | cop |
| 16 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 know | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 care | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 care | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 care | aux |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 care | advmod |
| 21 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sure | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | the Linnet | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent linnet=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not care | present · do-support | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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