The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 29

“Shall I love you?” said the Swallow, who liked to come to the point at once, and the Reed made him a low bow.

Who acts: Swallow, Reed · What happens: love, say, like, come, make · To what, where: you, point, low bow, Swallow · 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, Reed), 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 love	punct
2	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 love	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 love	nsubj
4	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 love	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 love	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 love	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Swallow	det
10	Swallow	Swallow	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 liked	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 liked	nsubj
13	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Swallow	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 come	mark
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 liked	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 point	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 point	det
18	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 once	case
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 come	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 made	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Reed	det
24	Reed	Reed	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 made	nsubj
25	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 made	obj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 bow	det
28	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bow	amod
29	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	love in a quote	shall	the Swallow = swallow	you			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	say speech: ask	past	the Swallow				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like	past	the Swallow				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Swallow not said here			the point	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to point=Initial_Location
5	make	past	the Reed	a low bow	Swallow		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary bow=Product

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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