The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 24

At present you have only the practice of friendship; some day you will have the theory also.’

Who acts: you · What happens: have, practice · To what, where: practice, present, theory, friendship

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 (you), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 present	case
2	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obl
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 practice	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 practice	det
7	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 friendship	case
9	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 practice	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obl:unmarked
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 theory	det
17	theory	theory	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	also	also	ADV	_	15 have	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	present	you	the practice of friendship	present		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent practice=Patient
2	have	future	you	the theory		day	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theory=Patient
3	practice			friendship			nom practice «act transitive»: of=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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