The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 100
It is quite remarkable how one good action always breeds another.
Who acts: corn, one good action · What happens: be, breed · To what, where: another
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 (corn, one good action), 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 | 4 remarkable | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 remarkable | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 remarkable | advmod |
| 4 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 breeds | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 action | nummod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 action | amod |
| 8 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breeds | nsubj |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 breeds | advmod |
| 10 | breeds | breed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 remarkable | advcl |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 breeds | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remarkable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | corn | remarkable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | breed | present | one good action | another | always 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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