The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 78
“In fact, you are the most affected person I ever met.”
Who acts: you, Bengal Light · What happens: be, meet · To what, where: affected person, fact
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 (you, Bengal Light), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 person | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 fact | case |
| 3 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 person | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fact | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 person | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 person | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 affected | advmod |
| 9 | affected | affected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 person | amod |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 met | nsubj |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 met | advmod |
| 13 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 person | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 person | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 person | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | you | the affected person | fact | tree rules | |||
| 2 | meet in a quote | past | the Bengal Light = light | the affected person not said here | ever | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent |
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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