The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 137
It is most gratifying to find oneself so popular.”
Who acts: moon · What happens: gratify, find · To what, where: oneself
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 (moon), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gratifying | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gratifying | aux |
| 3 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 gratifying | nsubj |
| 4 | gratifying | gratify | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gratifying | xcomp |
| 7 | oneself | oneself | PRON | Case=Acc Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 find | obj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 popular | advmod |
| 9 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 find | xcomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gratifying | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gratifying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gratify | present · progressive | moon | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | moon not said here | oneself | popular property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oneself=Topic |
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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