The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 135
What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.”
Who acts: pity · What happens: be, not mean, do · To what, where: pity, anything, practical good
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 (pity), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 mean | obj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pity | det |
| 3 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 is | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pity | acl:relcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 mean | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 mean | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 mean | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 mean | advmod |
| 10 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 mean | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 do | cc |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 mean | conj |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 good | nsubj |
| 16 | practical | practical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 good | amod |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 do | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 mean | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | pity | a pity not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not mean | present · do-support | a pity | anything | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | a pity not said here | practical good | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
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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