The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 132
She would not sacrifice herself for others.
Who acts: love · What happens: not sacrifice · To what, where: love
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sacrifice | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sacrifice | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 sacrifice | advmod |
| 4 | sacrifice | sacrifice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 sacrifice | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 others | case |
| 7 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sacrifice | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sacrifice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sacrifice | would | love | love | for others | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent herself=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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