The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 149

It saves time, and prevents arguments.”

Who acts: talking · What happens: save, prevent · To what, where: arguments

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (talking), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saves	nsubj
2	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saves	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 prevents	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 prevents	cc
6	prevents	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 saves	conj
7	arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 prevents	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saves	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 saves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present	talking				time		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	prevent	present	talking not said here	arguments					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer argument=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/149/