The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 61
Here you are laughing and making merry just as if the Prince and Princess had not just been married.”
Who acts: you · What happens: laugh, make, not marry · To what, where: Prince
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 (you), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 laughing | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughing | aux |
| 4 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Here | advcl:relcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 making | cc |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Here | conj |
| 7 | merry | merry | ADV | _ | 6 making | advmod |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 married | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 married | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 married | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 married | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Princess | cc |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Prince | conj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 married | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 married | advmod |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 married | advmod |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 married | aux:pass |
| 19 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 making | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present · progressive | you | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | gerund | merry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | not marry | past · perfect · passive | the Prince and Princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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