The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 115
Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?”
Who acts: Love · What happens: be, compare · To what, where: heart, bird
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, 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 (Love), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 better | cc |
| 2 | Love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 better | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | cop |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 Life | case |
| 6 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 better | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heart | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heart | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 heart | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 heart | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 heart | det |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 better | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bird | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heart | nmod |
| 16 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 bird | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 heart | det |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 compared | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heart | nmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Love | than Life; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the heart | of a bird | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | compare | participle | a bird not said here | to the heart of a man | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: 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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