The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 155
I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do.
Who acts: I, people, you, one · What happens: hate, talk, do, want · To what, where: people
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, people, you, one), 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 hate | nsubj |
| 2 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hate | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 talk | nsubj |
| 5 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 people | acl:relcl |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 themselves | case |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 talk | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hate | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wants | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 wants | advmod |
| 14 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wants | nsubj |
| 15 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hate | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 talk | mark |
| 17 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wants | xcomp |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 oneself | case |
| 19 | oneself | oneself | PRON | PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 talk | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wants | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | I | people | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | talk | present | people | about people | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about themselves=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | want | present | one | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | talk not said to happen | to-infinitive | one not said here | about oneself | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about oneself=Topic | ||||
| 6 | do | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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