The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 102
Of course, the wheelbarrow is worth far more than the plank, but true, friendship never notices things like that.
Who acts: true friendship · What happens: be, not notice · To what, where: things
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 (true friendship), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wheelbarrow | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Of | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wheelbarrow | det |
| 5 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 worth | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 worth | cop |
| 7 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 worth | obj |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 plank | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 plank | det |
| 12 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 more | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 notices | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 notices | cc |
| 15 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 friendship | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 true | punct |
| 17 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 notices | nsubj |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 notices | advmod |
| 19 | notices | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 worth | advcl |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 notices | obj |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 that | case |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 things | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | of the wheelbarrow; worth property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not notice | present | true friendship | things | like that | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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