The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 105

“One red rose is all I want,” cried the Nightingale, “only one red rose!

Who acts: One red rose, Nightingale · What happens: be, want, cry · To what, where: one red rose · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One red rose, Nightingale), 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	_	11 cried	punct
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 rose	nummod
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rose	amod
4	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 all	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 all	cop
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 want	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Nightingale	det
13	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rose	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 rose	punct
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 one	advmod
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 rose	nummod
18	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rose	amod
19	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	One red rose		all property	tree rules
2	want in a quote	present	the Nightingale = nightingale			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	cry speech: express	past	the Nightingale	one red rose		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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