The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 83
It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.”
Who acts: friend · What happens: be, know · To what, where: dangerous thing, one friends
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 (friend), 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 | 6 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 dangerous | advmod |
| 5 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thing | acl |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 friends | nummod |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 one | case |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 know | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | friend | a dangerous thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | one friends | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer friend=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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