The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 113

“To-night I go to Egypt,” said the Swallow, and he was in high spirits at the prospect.

Who acts: Swallow · What happens: go, say, be · To what, where: Egypt, high spirits · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Swallow), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
2	To	to	ADP	_	4 night	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 To	punct
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Egypt	case
8	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Swallow	det
13	Swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spirits	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 spirits	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 spirits	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 spirits	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 spirits	case
19	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 spirits	amod
20	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 prospect	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 prospect	det
23	prospect	prospect	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spirits	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present	the Swallow = swallow	Egypt	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to egypt=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the Swallow				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past	Swallow	high spirits		at the prospect	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.

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