The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 160
Pluck out my other eye, and give it to her, and her father will not beat her.”
Who acts: you, father · What happens: pluck out, give, not beat · To what, where: other eye, head, girl
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 (you, father), 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 | Pluck | pluck | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Pluck | compound:prt |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eye | nmod:poss |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eye | amod |
| 5 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pluck | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 give | cc |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pluck | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 beat | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 beat | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 beat | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 beat | advmod |
| 18 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pluck | parataxis |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 beat | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pluck | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pluck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck out | imperative | you not said here | my other eye | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | you not said here | head | girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Recipient | |||
| 3 | not beat | future | girl's father | girl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme |
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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