The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 10
Indeed, I know of nothing in the world that is either nobler or rarer than a devoted friendship.”
Who acts: I, that · What happens: know, be
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 know | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 nothing | case |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 know | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nothing | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 nobler | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 nobler | cop |
| 12 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 13 nobler | cc:preconj |
| 13 | nobler | noble | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 nothing | amod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 rarer | cc |
| 15 | rarer | rare | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 nobler | conj |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 friendship | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 friendship | det |
| 18 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 friendship | amod |
| 19 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rarer | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | of nothing; indeed property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that | noble property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | that not said here | than a devoted friendship | 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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