The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 99

As he received no salary at all this was not of much use to him, but it was considered a great honour, and was duly published in the Court Gazette.

Who acts: salary, this · What happens: receive, not be, consider, publish · To what, where: salary, much use, use, Court Gazette

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 (salary, this), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 received	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 received	nsubj
3	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 considered	advcl
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 salary	det
5	salary	salary	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 received	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	13 use	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 use	det:predet
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 use	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 use	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 use	advmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 use	case
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 use	amod
13	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 salary	nmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 use	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 considered	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 considered	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 considered	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 considered	aux:pass
20	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 honour	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 honour	amod
23	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 considered	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 published	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 published	cc
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 published	aux:pass
27	duly	duly	ADV	_	28 published	advmod
28	published	publish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 considered	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 Gazette	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Gazette	det
31	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Gazette	compound
32	Gazette	Gazette	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 published	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 considered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	past	salary	no salary				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salary=Theme
2	not is	past	this		salary	all much use		tree rules
3	consider	past · passive		use				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
4	publish	past · passive				the Court Gazette	duly property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»

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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