The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 71
“I am afraid you don’t quite see the moral of the story,” remarked the Linnet.
Who acts: Linnet, you · What happens: be, not see, remark · To what, where: moral · 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 (Linnet, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 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 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 see | advmod |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 see | advmod |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 moral | det |
| 11 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 story | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 moral | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 17 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 afraid | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Linnet | det |
| 19 | Linnet | linnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 remarked | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the Linnet = linnet | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not see in a quote | present · do-support | you | the moral of the story | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moral=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | remark speech: assert | participle | the Linnet | vn lecture-37.11-1 «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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