The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 9

Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.’

Who acts: word · What happens: be, prefer, know, do · To what, where: true friend, pain, good

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 (word), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	11 prefers	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 friend	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 friend	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 friend	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 friend	det
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 true	advmod
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 friend	amod
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 prefers	advcl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 prefers	nsubj
11	prefers	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 prefers	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knows	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 knows	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knows	nsubj
16	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 prefers	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 doing	mark
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 doing	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 doing	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 doing	aux
21	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 knows	advcl
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 doing	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 prefers	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 prefers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	word	a true friend			tree rules
2	prefer	present	word	pain		indeed property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	know	present	word				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	do	present · progressive	word	good	then		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality

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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