The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 161
“I will stay with you one night longer,” said the Swallow, “but I cannot pluck out your eye.
Who acts: Swallow · What happens: stay, say, not pluck out · To what, where: eye · 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 (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 | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | aux |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 stay | obl |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 night | nummod |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 stay | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Swallow | det |
| 14 | Swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pluck | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 pluck | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 pluck | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 pluck | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 pluck | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 pluck | advmod |
| 21 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 pluck | compound:prt |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eye | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pluck | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | future | the Swallow = swallow | night | with you; long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Swallow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not pluck out in a quote | can | the Swallow = swallow | your eye | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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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