The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 74
If they had lost their only son there would be no use in saying anything more about the matter.
Who acts: people, you, use · What happens: lose, be, say · To what, where: only son, use, anything · 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 (people, you, use), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 lost | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | aux |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 use | advcl |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 son | amod |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obj |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 be | expl |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 be | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 use | cop |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 use | det |
| 12 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 14 saying | mark |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 use | acl |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 saying | obj |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 anything | amod |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 matter | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 matter | det |
| 19 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 more | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | people | people's only son | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | imperative | you not said here | no use | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | no use not said here | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=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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