The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 30
“I had thoughts of entering public life once myself,” remarked the Duck; “there are so many things that need reforming.
Who acts: I, thoughts, many things · What happens: have, enter, remark, be, need, reform · To what, where: thoughts, public life · 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, thoughts, many things), 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 | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Duck | csubj |
| 4 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 entering | mark |
| 6 | entering | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 thoughts | acl |
| 7 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 life | amod |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entering | obj |
| 9 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 10 myself | case |
| 10 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 entering | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 13 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 Duck | amod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Duck | det |
| 15 | Duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 are | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 are | punct |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 are | expl |
| 19 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Duck | parataxis |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 many | advmod |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 things | amod |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 are | nsubj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 need | nsubj |
| 24 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 things | acl:relcl |
| 25 | reforming | reform | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 need | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 Duck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | I | thoughts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | ||||
| 2 | enter in a quote | gerund | thoughts not said here | public life | once myself | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=Destination | |||
| 3 | remark speech: assert | participle | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | does in a quote | present | many things | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | need in a quote | present | many things | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | reform not said to happen, in a quote | gerund | many things not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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