The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 63
“Ah, on what little things does happiness depend!
Who acts: happiness · What happens: depend
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 (happiness), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 depend | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 10 depend | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 things | nsubj |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 depend | obl |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 depend | aux |
| 9 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 depend | nsubj |
| 10 | depend | depend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 depend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend in a quote | present · do-support | happiness | on little things | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on thing=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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