The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 156

It is what I call selfishness, and selfishness is a most detestable thing, especially to any one of my temperament, for I am well known for my sympathetic nature.

Who acts: voice, I, selfishness · What happens: be, call, know · To what, where: selfishness, detestable thing, I · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (voice, I, selfishness), 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	3 what	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 call	nsubj
5	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
6	selfishness	selfishness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thing	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 thing	cc
9	selfishness	selfishness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thing	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 thing	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thing	det
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 detestable	advmod
13	detestable	detestable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
16	especially	especially	ADV	_	19 one	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 one	case
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thing	appos
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 temperament	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 temperament	nmod:poss
22	temperament	temperament	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 one	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 known	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 known	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 known	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 known	aux:pass
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 known	advmod
28	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 what	parataxis
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 nature	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 nature	nmod:poss
31	sympathetic	sympathetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 nature	amod
32	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 known	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	voice			tree rules
2	call	present	I	selfishness		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent selfishness=Recipient
3	is a	present	selfishness	a detestable thing		tree rules
4	know	present · passive		I	for my sympathetic nature; well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus

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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