The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 29
I shall probably go back to Court, for I know that I am destined to make a sensation in the world.”
Who acts: I · What happens: go back, know, destine, make · To what, where: I, sensation, world · 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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Court | case |
| 7 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 back | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 destined | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 destined | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 destined | aux:pass |
| 15 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 know | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 destined | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sensation | det |
| 19 | sensation | sensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sensation | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | shall | I | probably property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | destine | present · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | a sensation | the world | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sensation=Product |
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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