The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 78

It may not be purchased of the merchants, nor can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.”

What happens: not purchase, weigh out · To what, where: pain, balance

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: 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 purchased	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 purchased	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 purchased	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 purchased	aux:pass
5	purchased	purchase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 merchants	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 merchants	det
8	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 purchased	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 weighed	punct
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	14 weighed	cc
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 weighed	aux
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 weighed	nsubj:pass
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 weighed	aux:pass
14	weighed	weigh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 purchased	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 weighed	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 balance	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 balance	det
18	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 weighed	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 gold	case
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 balance	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 purchased	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 purchased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not purchase	may · passive		pain				of the merchants	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme
2	weigh out	can · passive		pain		the balance for gold			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value

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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