The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 59

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Who acts: only thing, this, I · What happens: sustain, be, cultivate · To what, where: one, consciousness, feeling

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 (only thing, this, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg902:580): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 consciousness	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sustains	nsubj
5	sustains	sustain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
6	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sustains	obj
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 life	case
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sustains	obl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 consciousness	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 consciousness	det
11	consciousness	consciousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 inferiority	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 inferiority	det
14	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 inferiority	amod
15	inferiority	inferiority	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 consciousness	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 everybody	case
17	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 inferiority	nmod
18	else	else	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 everybody	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 feeling	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 feeling	cc
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 feeling	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 feeling	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 feeling	det
24	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 consciousness	conj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 cultivated	obj
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 cultivated	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 cultivated	aux
28	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	29 cultivated	advmod
29	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 feeling	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 consciousness	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sustain	present	the only thing	one	through life	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent one=Theme through life=Instrument
2	is a	present	the only thing	the consciousness and a feeling	of the immense inferiority of everybody	tree rules
3	is a	present	this	a feeling		tree rules
4	cultivate	present · perfect	I	a feeling	always property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Product

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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