The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 21

Indeed, I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.”

Who acts: I, that, people · What happens: be, have, do · To what, where: refuge, nothing, whatever

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that, people), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 opinion	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 opinion	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 opinion	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 opinion	advmod
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 opinion	cop
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 opinion	case
8	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 refuge	nsubj
10	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 work	amod
11	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 refuge	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 refuge	cop
13	simply	simply	ADV	_	15 refuge	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 refuge	det
15	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opinion	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 people	case
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 refuge	nmod
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 people	acl:relcl
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 have	obj
21	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 do	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 do	mark
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 nothing	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 opinion	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 opinion	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	I		of opinion; always, indeed property	tree rules
2	is a	present	that	the refuge	of people; simply property	tree rules
3	have	present	people	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	do	to-infinitive	people not said here	whatever		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality

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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