The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 110
I may be wrong, but I should have thought that friendship, true friendship, was quite free from selfishness of any kind.’
Who acts: I · What happens: be, think · To what, where: friendship, selfishness
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrong | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wrong | cop |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thought | aux |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 wrong | conj |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 friendship | det |
| 12 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 friendship | punct |
| 14 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 friendship | amod |
| 15 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 friendship | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 free | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 free | cop |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 free | advmod |
| 19 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thought | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 selfishness | case |
| 21 | selfishness | selfishness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 free | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 kind | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 kind | det |
| 24 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 selfishness | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrong | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | I | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | should · perfect | I | that friendship and true friendship | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot friendship=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | I not said here | selfishness of any kind | free 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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