The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 49
Suppose, for instance, anything happened to me to-night, what a misfortune that would be for every one!
Who acts: you, anything, night, misfortune · What happens: suppose, happen, misfortune, be · To what, where: me
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 (you, anything, night, misfortune), 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 | Suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 instance | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 instance | case |
| 4 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Suppose | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 happened | punct |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Suppose | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 happened | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 to | punct |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happened | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 misfortune | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 misfortune | nsubj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 misfortune | det |
| 16 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 night | conj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 one | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 one | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 one | cop |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 misfortune | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | imperative | you not said here | for instance | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | anything | me | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | misfortune | night and a misfortune | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | would | a misfortune | for every one | 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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