The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 50
Flour is one thing, and friendship is another, and they should not be confused.
Who acts: Flour · What happens: be, not confuse · To what, where: one thing, Hans
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 (Flour), 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 | Flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thing | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 thing | nummod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 another | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 another | cc |
| 7 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 another | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 another | cop |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 thing | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 confused | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 confused | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 confused | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 confused | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 confused | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 confused | aux:pass |
| 16 | confused | confuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 another | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Flour | one thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not confuse | should · passive | Hans = han | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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