The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 158
Her father will beat her if she does not bring home some money, and she is crying.
Who acts: father, girl · What happens: beat, not bring, cry · To what, where: girl, money
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 (father, girl), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 beat | aux |
| 4 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beat | obj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 bring | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bring | nsubj |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 bring | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 bring | advmod |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beat | advcl |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 bring | advmod |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 money | det |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 crying | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 crying | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 crying | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 crying | aux |
| 18 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 beat | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | future | girl's father | girl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not bring a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | girl | some money | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent money=Theme | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | present · progressive | girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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