The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 55
Why, anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.
Who acts: anybody, newspapers · What happens: have, provide · To what, where: common sense, imagination
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 (anybody, newspapers), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 have | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sense | amod |
| 7 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 provided | punct |
| 9 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | parataxis |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 provided | ccomp |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 imagination | det |
| 14 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | can | anybody | common sense | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient | ||||
| 2 | provide | past | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | newspapers = newspaper | no imagination | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent imagination=Patient |
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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