The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 142
I have six beautiful daughters, and I am so afraid the Pike may meet them.
Who acts: I, Pike · What happens: have, be, meet · To what, where: six beautiful daughters, daughters
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 (I, Pike), 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 | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 daughters | nummod |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 daughters | amod |
| 5 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 afraid | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 afraid | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 afraid | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 afraid | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 afraid | advmod |
| 11 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 have | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Pike | det |
| 13 | Pike | Pike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 meet | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 meet | aux |
| 15 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 afraid | ccomp |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 meet | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | six beautiful daughters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | meet | may | the Pike | daughters = daughter | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-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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