The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 82
“Swallow, Swallow, little Swallow,” said the Prince, “will you not stay with me for one night, and be my messenger?
Who acts: Swallow, you · What happens: say, not stay, be · To what, where: messenger · 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, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Swallow | punct |
| 2 | Swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Swallow | punct |
| 4 | Swallow | Swallow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Swallow | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Swallow | punct |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Swallow | amod |
| 7 | Swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Swallow | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Swallow | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Swallow | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stay | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 stay | punct |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 stay | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 stay | nsubj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 stay | advmod |
| 18 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 stay | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 night | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 night | nummod |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stay | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 messenger | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 messenger | cc |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 messenger | cop |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 messenger | nmod:poss |
| 28 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stay | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Swallow and little Swallow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not stay in a quote | future | you | night | with Swallow and little Swallow = swallow | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | infinitive | my messenger | tree rules |
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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