The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 74
“What I sing of, he suffers—what is joy to me, to him is pain.
Who acts: true lover, lover · What happens: sing, suffer, be · To what, where: joy, true lover, pain
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 (true lover, lover), 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 | _ | 8 suffers | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 suffers | obj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sing | nsubj |
| 4 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 What | acl:relcl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sing | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 suffers | nsubj |
| 8 | suffers | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 joy | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 joy | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 joy | cop |
| 12 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 suffers | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 joy | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 him | punct |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pain | nmod:poss |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 pain | cop |
| 19 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 suffers | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 suffers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express in a quote | present | the true lover = lover | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | suffer in a quote | present | lover | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | joy | the true lover = lover | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | lover's pain | 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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