The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 48
It is a beautiful virtue, and I possess it in a high degree.
Who acts: sympathy, I · What happens: be, possess · To what, where: beautiful virtue, sympathy, high degree
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 (sympathy, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 virtue | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 virtue | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 virtue | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 virtue | amod |
| 5 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 possess | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 possess | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 possess | nsubj |
| 9 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 virtue | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 possess | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 degree | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 degree | det |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 degree | amod |
| 14 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 possess | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 virtue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | sympathy | a beautiful virtue | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | possess | present | I | sympathy | a high degree | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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.
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