The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 136
He will sell it to the jeweller, and buy food and firewood, and finish his play.”
Who acts: India · What happens: sell, buy, finish, play · To what, where: ruby, jeweller, food, play
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 (India), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sell | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sell | aux |
| 3 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sell | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 jeweller | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jeweller | det |
| 7 | jeweller | jeweller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 buy | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 buy | cc |
| 10 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sell | conj |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 buy | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 firewood | cc |
| 13 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 food | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 finish | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 finish | cc |
| 16 | finish | finish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 sell | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 play | nmod:poss |
| 18 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 finish | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sell | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | future | India | ruby | the jeweller | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to jeweller=Recipient | |||
| 2 | buy | infinitive | India not said here | food and firewood | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 3 | finish | infinitive | India's play | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality play=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | play | India | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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