The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 7

She was one of those people who think that, if you say the same thing over and over a great many times, it becomes true in the end.

Who acts: Wheel, people, you, thing · What happens: be, think, say, become · To what, where: one, same thing · 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 (Wheel, people, you, thing), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 one	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 one	cop
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 people	case
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 think	nsubj
8	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 people	acl:relcl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 think	mark
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 say	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 think	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thing	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obj
17	over	over	ADV	_	13 say	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 becomes	cc
19	over	over	ADP	_	23 times	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 times	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 times	amod
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 times	amod
23	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 becomes	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 times	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 becomes	nsubj
26	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 say	conj
27	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 becomes	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 end	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 end	det
30	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 true	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Wheel	one		of that people	tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	that people				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	you	the same thing		over property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
4	become	present	thing		time	true property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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