The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 121

All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

Who acts: I, you, Love, Power · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: that, true lover, return

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 (I, you, Love, Power), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 that	det
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 ask	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ask	nsubj
4	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 ask	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 return	case
8	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lover	obl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 lover	cop
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 lover	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 lover	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 lover	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 lover	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lover	det
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lover	amod
16	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wiser	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 wiser	mark
19	Love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wiser	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 wiser	cop
21	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 ask	conj
22	than	than	ADP	_	23 Philosophy	case
23	Philosophy	Philosophy	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 wiser	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wise	punct
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 wise	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wise	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 wise	cop
28	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ask	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 mightier	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 mightier	cc
31	mightier	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 wise	parataxis
32	than	than	ADP	_	33 Power	case
33	Power	Power	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 mightier	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 mighty	punct
35	though	though	SCONJ	_	38 mighty	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 mighty	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 mighty	cop
38	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 mightier	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	I	that		of you	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of you=Recipient
2	is a	present	you	a true lover	return		tree rules
3	is	present	Love			than Philosophy; wise property	tree rules
4	is	present	love			wise property	tree rules
5	is	present	Power			mighty property	tree rules

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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