The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 41
“It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.
Who acts: love, things, one · What happens: not be, not prove, tell, not go, happen, make · To what, where: anything, one, things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love, things, one), 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 | _ | 7 useful | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 half | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 half | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 half | advmod |
| 5 | half | half | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 useful | amod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 half | advmod |
| 7 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 Logic | case |
| 9 | Logic | Logic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 useful | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 prove | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 prove | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 prove | nsubj |
| 13 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 prove | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 prove | advmod |
| 15 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 useful | parataxis |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 prove | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 telling | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 telling | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 telling | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 telling | aux |
| 21 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 telling | advmod |
| 22 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 prove | parataxis |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 telling | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 things | case |
| 25 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 one | nmod |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 going | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 going | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 going | advmod |
| 29 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 things | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 happen | mark |
| 31 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 going | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 making | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 making | cc |
| 34 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 telling | conj |
| 35 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 making | obj |
| 36 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 making | xcomp |
| 37 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 believe | obj |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 true | nsubj |
| 39 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 true | cop |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 true | advmod |
| 41 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 things | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 useful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | love | half property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not prove in a quote | present · do-support | love | anything | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · progressive | love | one of things | always property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | |||
| 4 | not go in a quote | present · progressive | things | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | happen in a quote | to-infinitive | things not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | make in a quote | gerund | love not said here | one | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | believe in a quote | infinitive | one not said here | things | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | not is in a quote | present | things | true property | 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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