The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 35
Whenever we appear we excite great attention.
Who acts: we · What happens: appear, excite · To what, where: great attention
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 (we), 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 | Whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 appear | nsubj |
| 3 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Whenever | advcl:relcl |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 excite | nsubj |
| 5 | excite | excite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 appear | xcomp |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 attention | amod |
| 7 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 excite | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whenever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | we | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | excite | infinitive | we | great attention | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus attention=Experiencer |
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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