The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 92

I know it is very generous of me, and a great many people would think me extremely foolish for parting with it, but I am not like the rest of the world.

Who acts: I, wheelbarrow, great many people · What happens: know, be, think, part, not be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

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, wheelbarrow, great many people), 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	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 generous	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 generous	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 generous	advmod
6	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 know	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 generous	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 think	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 think	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 people	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 people	amod
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 people	amod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 think	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 think	aux
16	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	parataxis
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 think	obj
18	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	19 foolish	advmod
19	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 think	ccomp
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 parting	mark
21	parting	part	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 foolish	advcl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 parting	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 rest	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 rest	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 rest	nsubj
27	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 rest	cop
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 rest	advmod
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 rest	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rest	det
31	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 think	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 world	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rest	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	wheelbarrow		of me; generous property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	would	a great many people	me		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
4	part	gerund	a great many people not said here		with wheelbarrow	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with it=Co-Patient
5	not is	present	I		like the rest; of the world	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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