The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 56
But I have imagination, for I never think of things as they really are; I always think of them as being quite different.
Who acts: I, newspapers · What happens: have, not think, be, think · To what, where: imagination · 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 (I, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 have | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 think | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 think | nsubj |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 think | advmod |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 things | case |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 think | obl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 are | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 are | nsubj |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 are | advmod |
| 15 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 think | advcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 think | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 think | nsubj |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 think | advmod |
| 19 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 think | obl |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 different | mark |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 different | cop |
| 24 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 25 different | advmod |
| 25 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 think | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | imagination | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent imagination=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | present | I | of things | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | does | present | newspapers = newspaper | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | I | of newspapers = newspaper; always property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | gerund | different property | 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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