The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 166

I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”

Who acts: I · What happens: have, be, not understand, say · To what, where: long conversations, single word · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	3 have	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 conversations	amod
5	conversations	conversation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 myself	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 myself	case
8	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 have	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 clever	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 clever	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 clever	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 clever	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 clever	advmod
14	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 have	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 understand	mark
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 understand	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 understand	nsubj
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 understand	aux
19	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 understand	advmod
20	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 clever	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 word	det
22	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 word	amod
23	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 understand	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 what	case
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 word	nmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 saying	nsubj
27	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 saying	aux
28	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 what	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	long conversations	by myself; often property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversation=Patient
2	is	present	I		clever property	tree rules
3	not understand	present · do-support	I	a single word	sometimes property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	present · progressive	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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