The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 88
“It is very cold here,” he said; “but I will stay with you for one night, and be your messenger.”
Who acts: agility, Swallow · What happens: be, say, stay · 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 (agility, 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 | _ | 5 cold | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cold | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cold | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 cold | advmod |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 cold | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cold | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cold | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 stay | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 stay | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 stay | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 stay | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 stay | aux |
| 16 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 stay | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 night | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 night | nummod |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stay | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 messenger | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 messenger | cc |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 messenger | cop |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 messenger | nmod:poss |
| 26 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stay | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 stay | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | agility | here | cold property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Swallow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stay in a quote | future | Swallow | night | with you | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | infinitive | your 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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