The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 76

But when I think that they might lose their only son, I certainly am very much affected.”

Who acts: I, people · What happens: think, lose, affect · To what, where: only son, I · 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 (I, people), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	18 affected	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 think	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 affected	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 lose	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lose	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 lose	aux
8	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 think	ccomp
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
10	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 son	amod
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lose	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 affected	nsubj
14	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	18 affected	advmod
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 affected	aux:pass
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADV	_	18 affected	advmod
18	affected	affect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 affected	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 affected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	lose	might	people	people's only son		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality
3	affect	present · passive		I	certainly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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