The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 7
‘Prince, your only chance of happiness depends upon that which is most opposed to your own nature.’
Who acts: only chance, happiness · What happens: depend, oppose, chance · To what, where: Prince
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (only chance, happiness), 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 | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 depends | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 chance | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 chance | nmod:poss |
| 5 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chance | amod |
| 6 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 depends | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 happiness | case |
| 8 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chance | nmod |
| 9 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 that | case |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 depends | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 opposed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 opposed | aux:pass |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 opposed | advmod |
| 15 | opposed | oppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 depends | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 nature | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 nature | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 nature | amod |
| 19 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opposed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 depends | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 depends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | present | your only chance of happiness | Prince | upon that | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | oppose | present · passive | to your own nature | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | chance | happiness | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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