The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 159
I am a great favourite at Court; in fact, the Prince and Princess were married yesterday in my honour.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: be, marry, honour · To what, where: great favourite, Court, Prince, fact
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, my), 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 | 5 favourite | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 favourite | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 favourite | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 favourite | amod |
| 5 | favourite | favourite | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Court | case |
| 7 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 favourite | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 married | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fact | case |
| 10 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 married | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fact | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prince | det |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 married | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Princess | cc |
| 15 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Prince | conj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 married | aux:pass |
| 17 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 favourite | conj |
| 18 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 married | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 honour | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 honour | nmod:poss |
| 21 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 married | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 favourite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a great favourite | Court | tree rules | |||
| 2 | marry | past · passive | the Prince and Princess | fact | yesterday | in my honour | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||
| 3 | honour | my | nom honour «state transitive»: 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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