--- title: “It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything,… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. Who acts: love, things, one. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/41/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Happy Prince, and Other Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/) / [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/) / 41 # The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 41 “It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. **Who acts:** love, things, one · **What happens:** not be, not prove, tell, not go, happen, make · **To what, where:** anything, one, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love, things, one), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg902:3:41 # text = “It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 half half ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 7 amod _ _ 6 as as ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Logic Logic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 for for SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 16 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 22 advmod _ _ 22 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 parataxis _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 acl:relcl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 obj _ _ 36 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 39 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | love | | | | | half *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **prove** *in a quote* | present · do-support | love | anything | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · progressive | love | one of things | | | | always *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | things | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **happen** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | things *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **make** *in a quote* | gerund | love *not said here* | one | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **believe** *in a quote* | infinitive | one *not said here* | things | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 8 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | things | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/42/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/)