The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 66

There is nothing in you; you are hollow and empty.

Who acts: nothing, you · What happens: be

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 (nothing, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 is	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 nothing	nmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 hollow	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 hollow	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hollow	cop
9	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 is	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 empty	cc
11	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hollow	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	nothing	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	you		hollow property	tree rules
3	be		you not said here			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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