The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 50
The Prince and Princess would never be happy again, their whole married life would be spoiled; and as for the King, I know he would not get over it.
Who acts: Prince, I, King · What happens: not be, spoil, know, not get · To what, where: whole married life, life · 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 (Prince, I, King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 happy | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Princess | cc |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | conj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 happy | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 happy | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 happy | cop |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 happy | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spoiled | punct |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 life | amod |
| 13 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 life | amod |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spoiled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 spoiled | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 spoiled | aux:pass |
| 17 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 happy | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 King | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 King | cc |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 King | advmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 King | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 happy | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 know | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 know | nsubj |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 King | parataxis |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 get | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 get | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 get | advmod |
| 30 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 know | ccomp |
| 31 | over | over | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 get | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | would | the Prince and Princess | again | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spoil | would · passive | Princes's whole married life | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not get | would | King | life | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination |
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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