The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 130
“I will wait with you one night longer,” said the Swallow, who really had a good heart.
Who acts: Swallow · What happens: wait, say, have · To what, where: good heart · 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 | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | aux |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wait | obl |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 night | nummod |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 wait | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Swallow | det |
| 14 | Swallow | Swallow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 had | nsubj |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 18 had | advmod |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Swallow | acl:relcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 heart | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 heart | amod |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | future | the Swallow = swallow | night | with you; long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Swallow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | past | the Swallow | a good heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
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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