The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 5
Genius like mine is sure to be appreciated some day”; and he sank down a little deeper into the mud.
Who acts: Genius, fly · What happens: be, appreciate, sink down · 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 (Genius, fly), 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 | Genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 mine | case |
| 3 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 1 Genius | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | cop |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 appreciated | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 appreciated | aux:pass |
| 8 | appreciated | appreciate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appreciated | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 day | punct |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sank | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sank | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sank | nsubj |
| 15 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | parataxis |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 sank | compound:prt |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 little | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 deeper | advmod |
| 19 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 sank | xcomp |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 mud | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mud | det |
| 22 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 deeper | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Genius like mine | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appreciate | to-infinitive · passive | Genius like mine not said here | day | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V» | ||||
| 3 | sink down in a quote | past | fly | deep property | 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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