The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 160
Of course you know nothing of these matters, for you are a provincial.”
Who acts: you · What happens: know, be · To what, where: nothing
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 (you), 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 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 4 know | advmod |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 provincial | advcl |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 know | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 matters | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 matters | det |
| 8 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 nothing | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 provincial | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 provincial | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 provincial | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 provincial | det |
| 14 | provincial | provincial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 provincial | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 provincial | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | you | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | provincial property | 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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