The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 21
“It may be so with you,” he answered; “indeed, I have no doubt that it is, but with me it is different.
Who acts: Squib, you, I · What happens: be, answer, have · To what, where: doubt · 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 (Squib, you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 so | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 so | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 so | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 answered | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 you | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 you | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 14 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 17 have | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 indeed | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | parataxis |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 doubt | det |
| 19 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 is | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 is | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 doubt | acl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 different | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 different | cc |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 different | obl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 different | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 different | cop |
| 29 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 have | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | may | Squib | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | I | no doubt | indeed property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient | |||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | Squib | no doubt not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot doubt=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | Squib | with me; different 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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