The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 55
“I know I shall go much higher than the stars, much higher than the moon, much higher than the sun. In fact, I shall go so high that—”
Who acts: Rocket · What happens: know, go · 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 (Rocket), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | parataxis |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | ccomp |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 higher | advmod |
| 8 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 go | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 stars | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stars | det |
| 11 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 higher | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 higher | punct |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 higher | advmod |
| 14 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 know | parataxis |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 moon | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moon | det |
| 17 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 higher | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 higher | punct |
| 19 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 higher | advmod |
| 20 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 higher | conj |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 sun. | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sun. | det |
| 23 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 higher | obl |
| 24 | In | in | ADP | _ | 25 fact | case |
| 25 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sun. | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 go | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | aux |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 high | advmod |
| 31 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 go | xcomp |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 high | fixed |
| 33 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | Rocket | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | shall | Rocket | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | shall | Rocket | high property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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