The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 82
“I dare say that if I knew him I should not be his friend at all.
Who acts: Rocket · What happens: dare, say, know, not be · To what, where: Rocket, friend, all · 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 (Rocket), 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 | _ | 3 dare | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 dare | nsubj |
| 3 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dare | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 knew | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 knew | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | ccomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | obj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 friend | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 friend | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 friend | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 friend | cop |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friend | nmod:poss |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knew | ccomp |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 friend | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare in a quote | present | the Rocket = rocket | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the Rocket = rocket not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | the Rocket = rocket | Rocket | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | should | the Rocket = rocket | Rocket's friend | all | 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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