The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 143
He is a perfect monster, and would have no hesitation in breakfasting off them.
Who acts: Pike · What happens: be, have, breakfast off · To what, where: perfect monster, hesitation, 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 monster | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 monster | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 monster | det |
| 4 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 monster | amod |
| 5 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 have | cc |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 monster | parataxis |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 hesitation | det |
| 11 | hesitation | hesitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 breakfasting | mark |
| 13 | breakfasting | breakfast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 have | advcl |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 breakfasting | compound:prt |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 breakfasting | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 monster | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Pike | a perfect monster | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | would | no hesitation | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hesitation=Patient | |||||
| 3 | breakfast off | gerund | daughters = daughter | tree rules |
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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