The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 9
Love is all very well in its way, but friendship is much higher.
Who acts: Love, friendship · What happens: be · To what, where: way
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 (Love, 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 | Love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 way | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 way | nsubj |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 all | fixed |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 higher | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 higher | cc |
| 11 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 higher | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 higher | cop |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 higher | advmod |
| 14 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 way | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Love | Love's way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | friendship | high 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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