The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 164

I like hearing myself talk.

Who acts: I, myself · What happens: like, hear, talk · To what, where: myself

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, myself), 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 like	nsubj
2	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 like	xcomp
4	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 hearing	obj
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hearing	xcomp
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	like	present	I		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hear not said to happen	gerund	I not said here	myself	tree rules
3	talk	infinitive	myself not said here		vn talk-37.5 «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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