The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 14
You will no doubt be surprised to hear that I can fly up into the sky, and come down in a shower of golden rain.”
Who acts: You, doubt, I · What happens: know, be, hear, fly up, come down · To what, where: sky, shower · 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 (You, doubt, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 no | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 no | aux |
| 3 | no | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 surprised | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 surprised | cop |
| 6 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 no | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hear | mark |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 surprised | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 fly | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 fly | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fly | aux |
| 12 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hear | ccomp |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 fly | compound:prt |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 sky | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sky | det |
| 16 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fly | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 come | cc |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 no | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 shower | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 shower | det |
| 23 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 rain | case |
| 25 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rain | amod |
| 26 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shower | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 no | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 no | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | future | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | doubt | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | to-infinitive | doubt not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | fly up | can | I | into the sky result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sky=Result | ||||
| 5 | come down | infinitive | You not said here | a shower of golden rain | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shower=Location |
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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