The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 11
“It is quite evident that you have always lived in the country,” answered the Rocket, “otherwise you would know who I am.
Who acts: shape, you, Rocket · What happens: be, live, answer, know · To what, where: country · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shape, you, 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 | _ | 5 evident | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 evident | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 evident | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 evident | advmod |
| 5 | evident | evident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 lived | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lived | aux |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 lived | advmod |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 evident | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 country | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 country | det |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 evident | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 evident | punct |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Rocket | det |
| 18 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 know | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 know | punct |
| 21 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 24 know | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 know | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 know | aux |
| 24 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 answered | conj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 know | ccomp |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 who | nsubj |
| 27 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 who | cop |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | shape | evident property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | present · perfect | you | the country | always property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the Rocket | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | know in a quote | would | you | otherwise property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | the Rocket = rocket | 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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