The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 37
That at least is my idea about friendship, and I am sure I am right.
Who acts: That, I · What happens: be · To what, where: idea, least
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 (That, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 idea | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 least | case |
| 3 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 idea | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 idea | cop |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 idea | nmod:poss |
| 6 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 friendship | case |
| 8 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 idea | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sure | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sure | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 sure | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sure | cop |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 idea | parataxis |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 right | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 right | cop |
| 16 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sure | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 idea | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | my idea | least | about friendship | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | right 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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