The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 19
Really, if it had been arranged beforehand, it could not have turned out better for him; but, Princes are always lucky.”
Who acts: manner, Princes · What happens: arrange, not turn out, be · To what, where: manner
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 (manner, Princes), 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 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 7 arranged | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Really | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 arranged | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 arranged | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 arranged | aux:pass |
| 7 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | beforehand | beforehand | ADV | _ | 7 arranged | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 turned | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 turned | advmod |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 turned | aux |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 arranged | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 turned | compound:prt |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 turned | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 lucky | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 lucky | cc |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 but | punct |
| 22 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lucky | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 lucky | cop |
| 24 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 25 lucky | advmod |
| 25 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 arranged | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 lucky | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 lucky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | past · perfect · passive | manner | beforehand property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | not turn out | could · perfect | manner | for dead; good property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Princes | always, lucky 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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