The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 154
Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away.
Who acts: Dear Prince, I, next spring, you · What happens: leave, not forget, bring back, give away · To what, where: you, two beautiful jewels
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, I, next spring, you), 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 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Prince | amod |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 leave | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 leave | aux |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 leave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 forget | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 forget | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 forget | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 forget | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 forget | advmod |
| 13 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 leave | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 forget | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bring | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bring | cc |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spring | amod |
| 18 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bring | nsubj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 bring | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 bring | aux |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 leave | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 bring | obj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 bring | advmod |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 jewels | nummod |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 jewels | amod |
| 26 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bring | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 place | case |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 jewels | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 those | case |
| 30 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 place | nmod |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 given | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 given | aux |
| 33 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 those | acl:relcl |
| 34 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 given | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | must | Dear Prince | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not forget | future | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring back | future | next spring | two beautiful jewels | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination jewel=Theme | |||
| 4 | give away | present · perfect | you | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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