The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 93
I think that generosity is the essence of friendship, and, besides, I have got a new wheelbarrow for myself.
Who acts: I, generosity · What happens: think, be, get · To what, where: essence, new wheelbarrow · 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, generosity), 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 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 essence | mark |
| 4 | generosity | generosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 essence | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 essence | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 essence | det |
| 7 | essence | essence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 think | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 friendship | case |
| 9 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 essence | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 got | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 and | punct |
| 13 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 17 got | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 besides | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | aux |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 think | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wheelbarrow | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wheelbarrow | amod |
| 20 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 myself | case |
| 22 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 wheelbarrow | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | generosity | the essence | of friendship | tree rules | |||
| 3 | get | present · perfect | I | a new wheelbarrow | for myself | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wheelbarrow=Theme for myself=Source |
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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