The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 13
It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself.
Who acts: It · What happens: be, expect · To what, where: other people
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 (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 unfair | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 unfair | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 unfair | cop |
| 4 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 expect | mark |
| 6 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 unfair | csubj |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 expect | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 remarkable | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 remarkable | cop |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 remarkable | advmod |
| 12 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 expect | advcl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 oneself | case |
| 14 | oneself | oneself | PRON | PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 remarkable | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unfair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | It | unfair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | expect | to-infinitive | other people | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | as oneself; remarkable property | 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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