The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 57
As for keeping myself dry, there is evidently no one here who can at all appreciate an emotional nature.
Who acts: one · What happens: keep, be, appreciate · To what, where: myself, emotional nature
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 (one), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 keeping | mark |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 is | advcl |
| 4 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 keeping | obj |
| 5 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 keeping | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeping | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 8 is | advmod |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 is | nsubj |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 one | advmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 appreciate | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 appreciate | aux |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 appreciate | advmod |
| 17 | appreciate | appreciate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | acl:relcl |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 nature | det |
| 19 | emotional | emotional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 nature | amod |
| 20 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appreciate | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund | no one not said here | myself | dry property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | present | no one | there | evidently property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | appreciate | can | no one | a emotional nature | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nature=Stimulus |
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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