The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 38
“Will you come away with me?” he said finally to her; but the Reed shook her head, she was so attached to her home.
Who acts: Reed, wind · What happens: come away, say, shake, attach · To what, where: Reed, head · 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 (Reed, wind), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 14 her | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 shook | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 shook | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Reed | det |
| 18 | Reed | reed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shook | nsubj |
| 19 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shook | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 attached | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 attached | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 attached | aux:pass |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 attached | advmod |
| 26 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 shook | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 home | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 home | nmod:poss |
| 29 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 attached | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come away in a quote | future | Reed | with wind; away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | wind | Reed | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | shake | past | the Reed | Reed's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 4 | attach | past · passive | Reed | to Reed's home | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to home=Co-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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