The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 4
Idleness is a great sin, and I certainly don’t like any of my friends to be idle or sluggish.
Who acts: Idleness, I · What happens: be, not do · To what, where: great sin
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 (Idleness, I), 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 | Idleness | idleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sin | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sin | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sin | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sin | amod |
| 5 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 do | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 9 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 10 do | advmod |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sin | parataxis |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 do | advmod |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 any | case |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 do | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 friends | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friends | nmod:poss |
| 16 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 any | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 idle | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 idle | cop |
| 19 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 friends | acl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 sluggish | cc |
| 21 | sluggish | sluggish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 idle | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Idleness | a great sin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not do | present | I | like any; certainly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | I not said here | idle property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | I not said here | 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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