The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 133
She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that the arts are selfish.
Who acts: love, everybody, arts · What happens: think, know, be · To what, where: selfish · Speech: someone speaks here
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, everybody, arts), 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 | 2 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 5 music | advmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 music | case |
| 5 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thinks | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knows | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 knows | cc |
| 8 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 knows | nsubj |
| 9 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 thinks | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 selfish | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 arts | det |
| 12 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 selfish | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 selfish | cop |
| 14 | selfish | selfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 knows | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | love | of music | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | present | everybody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the arts | selfish | 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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