The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 15
“I don’t think much of that,” said the Duck, “as I cannot see what use it is to any one.
Who acts: Duck, doubt · What happens: not think, say, not see, use, be · To what, where: much, Duck · 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 (Duck, doubt), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 think | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 much | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Duck | det |
| 13 | Duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 see | advmod |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Duck | acl:relcl |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 use | nsubj |
| 22 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | ccomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 one | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 one | cop |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 one | case |
| 26 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 one | det |
| 27 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 use | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | the Duck = duck | much | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Duck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not see in a quote | can | the Duck = duck | the Duck not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | use in a quote | present | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | doubt | to any one | 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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