The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 163
“I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention.
Who acts: loss, Court · What happens: not go, stop, talk, pay · To what, where: Court, attention
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 (loss, Court), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 going | advmod |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stop | mark |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 going | xcomp |
| 8 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stop | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 talking | obl |
| 11 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 8 talking | advmod |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 pays | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pays | nsubj |
| 14 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | advcl |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 attention | det |
| 16 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pays | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | present · progressive | Court's loss = loss | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stop in a quote | to-infinitive | Court's loss = loss not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | talk in a quote | gerund | Court's loss = loss not said here | Court | merely property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | pay in a quote | present | Court | no attention | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/163/