The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 74
Swallow, Swallow, little Swallow, will you not bring her the ruby out of my sword-hilt?
Who acts: you · What happens: swallow, not bring · To what, where: little Swallow, ruby, mother, sword hilt
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), 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 | Swallow | swallow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Swallow | punct |
| 3 | Swallow | swallow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Swallow | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Swallow | punct |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Swallow | amod |
| 6 | Swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Swallow | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 bring | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | nsubj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 bring | advmod |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Swallow | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ruby | det |
| 14 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 hilt | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hilt | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hilt | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hilt | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 sword | punct |
| 20 | hilt | hilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Swallow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | imperative | you not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | swallow | infinitive | you not said here | little Swallow | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swallow=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not bring | future | you | the ruby | mother | my sword hilt | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination ruby=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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