The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 80

“He has a great many good points, but for my own part I have a mother’s feelings, and I can never look at a confirmed bachelor without the tears coming into my eyes.”

Who acts: rat, Duck, tears · What happens: have, not look, confirm, come · To what, where: great many good points, feelings, eyes

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 (rat, Duck, tears), 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	_	3 has	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 points	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 points	amod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 points	amod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 points	amod
8	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 have	cc
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 part	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 part	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 part	amod
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obl
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mother	det
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 feelings	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 mother	case
20	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 have	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 look	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 look	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 look	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 look	aux
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 look	advmod
26	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 have	parataxis
27	at	at	ADP	_	30 bachelor	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bachelor	det
29	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 bachelor	amod
30	bachelor	bachelor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 look	obl
31	without	without	ADP	_	33 tears	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tears	det
33	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 look	obl
34	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 tears	acl
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 eyes	case
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 eyes	nmod:poss
37	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 coming	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	rat	a great many good points			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Patient
2	have in a quote	present	the Duck = duck	a mother's feelings		for my own part	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient
3	not look in a quote	can	the Duck = duck			without the tears; at a confirmed bachelor	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bachelor=Theme
4	confirm in a quote	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
5	come in a quote	gerund	the tears not said here		my eyes		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial_Location

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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