The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 137
“Dear Prince,” said the Swallow, “I cannot do that”; and he began to weep.
Who acts: Dear Prince, Swallow · What happens: say, not do, begin, weep · To what, where: Swallow, that · 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 (Dear Prince, 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 | _ | 3 Prince | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Prince | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Prince | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Swallow | det |
| 8 | Swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 do | advmod |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 began | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 began | nsubj |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 weep | mark |
| 22 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 began | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dear Prince | the Swallow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | can | Dear Prince = prince | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Swallow | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | weep | to-infinitive | Swallow not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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