The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 51
Really, when I begin to reflect on the importance of my position, I am almost moved to tears.”
Who acts: I · What happens: begin, reflect, move · To what, where: I, tears
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), 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 | _ | 5 begin | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Really | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 begin | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 begin | nsubj |
| 5 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 reflect | mark |
| 7 | reflect | reflect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 begin | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 importance | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 importance | det |
| 10 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reflect | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 position | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 position | nmod:poss |
| 13 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 importance | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 moved | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 moved | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 moved | aux:pass |
| 17 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 18 moved | advmod |
| 18 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 begin | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 tears | case |
| 20 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 moved | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 begin | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 begin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | I | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | reflect | to-infinitive | I not said here | on the importance of my position | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on importance=Topic | ||||
| 3 | move | present · passive | I | tears | almost property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to tear=Trajectory |
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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