The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 64
“I shall set the whole world on fire, and make such a noise that nobody will talk about anything else for a whole year.”
Who acts: fire, noise · What happens: set, make, talk · To what, where: whole world, fire, noise
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 (fire, noise), 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 | _ | 4 set | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 world | amod |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 make | cc |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 set | conj |
| 13 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 noise | det:predet |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 noise | det |
| 15 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 talk | nsubj |
| 17 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 talk | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 talk | aux |
| 19 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 noise | acl:relcl |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 anything | case |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 talk | obl |
| 22 | else | else | ADV | _ | 21 anything | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 year | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 year | det |
| 25 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 year | amod |
| 26 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 talk | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set in a quote | shall | fire | the whole world | fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme on fire=Destination | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | infinitive | fire not said here | such noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | ||||
| 3 | talk in a quote | future | such noise | year | about anything | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about anything=Topic |
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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