The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 63
It is a most joyful occasion, and when I soar up into the air I intend to tell the stars all about it.
Who acts: thing, I · What happens: be, soar up, intend, tell · To what, where: joyful occasion, air, stars · 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 (thing, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 occasion | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 occasion | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 occasion | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 joyful | advmod |
| 5 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 occasion | amod |
| 6 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 intend | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 intend | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 soar | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 soar | nsubj |
| 11 | soar | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 intend | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 soar | compound:prt |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 air | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 air | det |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 soar | obl |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 intend | nsubj |
| 17 | intend | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 occasion | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 tell | mark |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 intend | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stars | det |
| 21 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tell | obj |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 it | advmod |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tell | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 occasion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | thing | a joyful occasion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | soar up | present | I | the air | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into air=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | intend | present | I | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the stars | about thing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent star=Recipient about it=Topic |
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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