The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 37
As for domesticity, it ages one rapidly, and distracts one’s mind from higher things.”
Who acts: attention · What happens: age, distract · To what, where: one mind, higher things
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 (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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 domesticity | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | domesticity | domesticity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 distracts | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ages | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ages | nsubj |
| 6 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 domesticity | conj |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 ages | appos |
| 8 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 7 one | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 distracts | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 distracts | cc |
| 11 | distracts | distract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 mind | nummod |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 one | case |
| 14 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 distracts | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 things | case |
| 16 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 things | amod |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 distracts | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 distracts | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 distracts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | age | attention | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | distract | present | one mind | higher things | as domesticity and ages | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mind=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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