The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 122
Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.”
Who acts: Travel, one · What happens: improve, do away, prejudice · To what, where: mind
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Travel, one), 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 | Travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 improves | nsubj |
| 2 | improves | improve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mind | det |
| 4 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 improves | obj |
| 5 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 2 improves | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 does | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 does | cc |
| 8 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 improves | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 does | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 prejudices | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prejudices | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 one | case |
| 14 | prejudices | prejudice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 does | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 improves | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 improves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | improve | present | Travel | the mind | wonderfully property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | |||
| 2 | do away | present | Travel not said here | with all one's prejudices; away property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | prejudice | all one | nom prejudice «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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