The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 36
I have not actually appeared myself, but when I do so it will be a magnificent sight.
Who acts: I, attention · What happens: have, not appear, do, be · To what, where: myself, magnificent sight
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, attention), 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 | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 appeared | advmod |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 appeared | advmod |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | ccomp |
| 6 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 appeared | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 do | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 do | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 sight | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sight | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 sight | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sight | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sight | det |
| 17 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sight | amod |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not appear | past | I not said here | myself | actually property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location myself=Theme | |||
| 3 | do | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | future | attention | a magnificent sight | 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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