The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 122
My nerves are certainly very much shattered, and I require rest.”
Who acts: nerves, I · What happens: be, require · To what, where: rest
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nerves, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 nerves | nmod:poss |
| 2 | nerves | nerve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shattered | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shattered | cop |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 shattered | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 shattered | advmod |
| 7 | shattered | shattered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 require | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 require | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 require | nsubj |
| 11 | require | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shattered | conj |
| 12 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 require | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shattered | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 shattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My nerves | certainly, shattered property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | require | present | I | rest | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rest=Precondition |
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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