The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 46
I am always thinking about myself, and I expect everybody else to do the same.
Who acts: I, everybody · What happens: think, expect, do · To what, where: everybody, same
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, everybody), 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 | 4 thinking | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinking | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 thinking | advmod |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 myself | case |
| 6 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 thinking | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 expect | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 expect | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 expect | nsubj |
| 10 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinking | parataxis |
| 11 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 expect | obj |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 everybody | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 expect | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 same | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 do | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · progressive | I | about myself; always property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about myself=Topic | ||||
| 2 | expect | present | I | everybody | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | everybody not said here | the same | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
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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