The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 144
Well, good-bye: I have enjoyed our conversation very much, I assure you.”
Who acts: I, our · What happens: enjoy, assure, converse · To what, where: conversation, good bye, you
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, our), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 bye | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bye | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 5 | bye | bye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 assure | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 enjoyed | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 enjoyed | aux |
| 9 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 bye | acl:relcl |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 conversation | nmod:poss |
| 11 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enjoyed | obj |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 enjoyed | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 assure | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 assure | nsubj |
| 16 | assure | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 assure | iobj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 assure | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 assure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | present · perfect | I | our conversation | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer conversation=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | assure | present | I | good bye | you | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 3 | converse | our | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=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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