The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 32
However, they did not seem to have much effect.
Who acts: resolutions · What happens: not seem, have · To what, where: much effect
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 (resolutions), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 seem | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seem | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seem | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 seem | advmod |
| 6 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seem | xcomp |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 effect | amod |
| 10 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not seem | past · do-support | resolutions = resolution | however property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | resolutions = resolution not said here | much effect | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=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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